EduWatch suggests 4 methods MoE can end exam hall malpractice

Africa Education Watch after the West African Examinations Council said some students resorted to Artificial Intelligence in the WASSCE has suggested ways the Ministry of Education can end malpractice in the examination hall.

EduWatch’s recommendation comes after the Minister for Education, Dr Adutwum addressing the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs said his outfit is considering varying questions next academic year amid cheating in exams room.

“Right now we are struggling with examination hall malpractices. So we met the West African Examinations Council (WAEC)yesterday and we are planning to vary question papers,” the Education Minister told the House of Chiefs.

Reacting to the development, the Executive Director of the education think tank – Africa Education Watch (EduWatch), Kofi Asare in a social media post sighted by Thisterm.com has suggested;

1. WAEC should stop using teachers/GES staff as invigilators and supervisors. Teachers invigilating and supervising an external exam of their students is a Corruption Risk. In complicit schools, there is always a gang of teachers who are the first-line beneficiaries of exam fraud.

2. Ghana Education Service (GES) should dismiss teachers who engage in exam fraud. Outright dismissal will deter.

3. GES should remove WASSCE and BECE pass rates (outcome indicators) as KPIs for school heads and replace them with output indicators. The outcome-based KPIs drive some school heads to either sponsor or condone collusion between teachers and candidates to meet targets.

4. The Ghana Education Service (GES) should enforce its ban on mobile phones. No one will enforce it for them. For now, it is very difficult to find a final-year Senior High School (SHS) student without a mobile phone.