Kakata, Margibi – Senior students of the Booker Washington Institute in Margibi County have lambasted the school administration for reportedly registering eleventh graders to sit this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Report by Yawah Y. Jaivey in Kakata, Margibi CountyThe BWI students are craving the Ministry of Education’s immediate intervention. Authorities of the West African Examination Council on Wednesday, April 24, kicked off the conduct of the WASSCE exams with practical and Physical Geography being the first test. He said the administration’s decision to pair them with junior students to has triggered protest by senior students, thus constraining the school authorities to have reverted its earlier decision by discontinuing the junior students’ participation. James G. Gaye said it was “never possible for the MOE to grant a school authorization to register junior students to the write West African Senior School Certificate Examinations which is solely intended for senior students”.

Source: Front Page Africa April 26, 2019 04:52 UTC