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N JUABEN S: MCE monitors BECE 2020 exams

The New Juaben South Municipal Chief Executive, Isaac Appaw-Gyasi and the Municipal Education Directorate led by Mr. Victor de Graft Etsison; Municipal Education Director toured all the Examination Centre within the Municipality to monitor the ongoing 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

Date Created : 9/16/2020 2:18:55 AM : Story Author : Collins Aikins Akuffo/Ghanadistricts.com

The entourage involved the New Juaben South Municipal Education Public Relations Officer (PRO), Madam Matilda Botchway, Methodist Education Unit (Regional Head) Madam Gifty E. Opoku, and Deputy Municipal Officer in charge of supervision of schools, Mr. Samuel Owadie.

On arrival in all the five Examination centers, the team noted that all the various Centers of Examination have received PPE’s from the government and have been distributed to each of the students taking the exams. This initiative is to safeguard protocols prescribed by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo to curbing the spread of this novel pandemic among students and invigilators.

The MCE, Hon. Isaac Appaw -Gyasi in his address said, the students have comported themselves well and hope it will translate into good results this year since the President’s Free SHS policy awaits them. He also praised both the invigilators and the teachers for the massive support given to the Children, ‘’we thank them a lot’’, he acknowledged.

Mr. Victor De-Graft Etsison, the Municipal Director of Education for New Juaben South said, this year they have prepared the students very well due to the COVID-19 Pandemic which breaks the students from attending classes from early March 2020.

“Due to the re-opening of the final year students by the President of the Republic of Ghana, the Municipal Chief Executive; Hon. Isaac Appaw-Gyasi, Member of Parliament for New Juaben South constituency; Hon. Mark Assibey-Yeboah and the aspiring Member of Parliament for New Juaben South constituency; Mr. Michael Okyere Baafi organized mock exams to help prepare the students intensely for these exams and provide them with specialized teachers in all the various courses.

There were five (5) Examination Centers within the Municipality with Forty-one (41) public schools and Twenty-nine (29) private schools. In all, Two Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty-seven (2,257) candidates took part in this year’s BECE exams, made of up Thousand and Ninety-nine (1,099) boys and Thousand One Hundred and Fifty-eight (1,158) girls.