A senior lecturer at the University for Development Studies Dr. Michael Ayamga Adongo believes the 2020 batch of students writing their West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will be passed excellently.
This according to him will be deliberately done for the students because they are beneficiaries of government’s flagship program Free Senior High School.
About 313,837 candidates in Ghana are currently writing the examination.
Dr. Adongo is of the view that students will be passed to cover up for the excesses created by the introduction of free SHS.
He wrote: “If you think you are educating your ward just to pass WASSCE you don’t have to worry. The system will ensure he or she passes. In fact he or she may get straight A’s because some people are desperate to hide the rot they created in our secondary education.”
The development economist has consistently criticized government’s flagship program free SHS, describing it as a systematic destruction of the future of students.
He noted that the policy has affected the quality of secondary education adding that “On the other hand if you are educating your ward and hoping they are adequately prepared for life you should worry. If you are expecting your wards to become competitive locally, on the continent and globally there is reason to lose sleep.”
Dr. Adongo further claimed there is a dip in the quality of education due to the politicization of exams and other related activities, a situation he said calls for worry.
“When you see MP-sponsored and party-branded mock exams and past questions you know we have reached the bottom. When teachers go for capability development workshops and they are not trained on how to teach and train but how to solve past questions you know dark days are upon us,” he claimed.
