Security Analyst, Adam Bonaa has hinted that high failures in the WASSCE exams have a dire security implication for the nation.
According to him, high failures will mean that more people will not have access to Tertiary education.
“At the moment what is staring at us and with where we find ourselves in the sub-region where we have terrorism, extremist and radicalism … you can see that this issue about e- levy people are already demonstrating. It’s just the smallest trigger.” He said.
Reacting to the announcement by the West African Examinations Council that 61,778 students fail Ghana WASSCE examinations, Mr Bonaa said this is partly because of the elevation of standards set by educational stakeholders in the country.
A total of 446,352 candidates from 965 schools sat for the 2021 WAEC exams and out of dis number, 224,913 representing 50.4% were girls while 221,439 were male candidates, representing 49.6%.
Also, a total of 1,339 subject results and 174 entire results of some students who sat for the exams were cancelled.
According to WAEC, the entire results of 3,667 candidates have also been withheld pending the conclusion of investigations into various cases of examination malpractice detected during and after the conduct of the examination.
In an interview on Joy News and monitored by ATLFMNEWS on Thursday, Mr. Bonaa indicated that, if proper precautions are not implemented to mitigate the failures on the part of the students, some may not have the opportunity to further their education and may end up engaging in undesirable behaviours.
“As far as I am concerned there are security challenges so between now and the time the next batch of senior secondary school students write their exams we should be thinking of how to fix these peoples. Are we going to give them some incentives, are we going to be retraining them…” he questioned.
He, therefore, called on stakeholders in the education sector to develop pragmatic measures that will help students who score below the score mark to get admissions to institutions of higher learning.
“…I think our surest bet into getting these youth out of trouble will be to ensure that the government gets the majority of the young people to go into TVET educational facilities.” He suggested.
Meanwhile, the education minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum says the performance of the pioneering students of the Double Track System, which was implemented as a leapfrogging system into the nation’s Senior High School system in 2018, has been remarkable.
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Source: Emmaunella Ama Gyamfi/ATLFMNEWS
