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‘Don’t sack pregnant BECE candidates from centres’

‘Don’t sack pregnant BECE candidates from centres’

The Kumasi Metropolitan Director of Education, Madam Augusta Akyaa-Sarpong, has reminded invigilators supervising the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) of the directive by the Ghana Education Service (GES) not to prevent pregnant candidates from writing the examination.

She said although it was wrong for the girls to be pregnant while in school, sacking them from the examination centres was against their human rights, adding that anyone who did that would be dealt with according to the GES regulations.

Madam Akyaa-Sarpong gave the reminder in an interview with the Daily Graphic after she had accompanied the Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Kojo Bonsu, and other officials on a tour of some examination centres in Kumasi on the second day of the examination on Tuesday.

BECE candidates in Kumasi

A total of 22,653 candidates comprising 10,882 boys and 11,771 girls from 475 schools are writing the exams in the Kumasi metr

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