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Showing posts with label West African Senior School Certificate Examination. Show all posts
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22 November 2013
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5 November 2013
ASUU STRIKE...OUR LOSS,THEIR GAIN...DONATING OUR LOST CHILDREN TO ACCRA AND COTONOU!
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English: The Tower on Legon Campus, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana. Français : La tour dominant la colline de Legon sur le campus de Legon à Accra, Ghana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
Ghana’s public universities are facing a boom in applications, but do not have sufficient facilities to meet growing demand that has been exacerbated by an influx of students from neighbouring countries and a double cohort leaving school this year.
As a result, admission to universities is no longer based on obtaining the required grades – some qualified candidates have been turned down or made to sit additional selection tests.
The situation has been compounded by students from neighbouring countries – especially Nigeria – competing with Ghanaians for admission. Nigerians have been seeking out Ghanaian institutions because of the frequent strikes that have bedevilled their public university campuses.
“Over the past four months, Nigerian universities have been on strike and students have been forced to stay at home so it is better for some of us to look elsewhere to educate our children,” a Nigerian parent, Folu Agbeniran, told University World News in Accra.
Agbeniran said he had spent a month in Ghana looking at institutions that could admit his child as a first-year political science student.
“It is expensive to send your child to universities in Europe because even if you have the money, the visa regime has become very complicated so it is only logical to turn to a neighbouring country where everything is working,” he said.
Local students have become frustrated as institutions put in place competitive procedures to select qualified applicants. This year the University of Ghana rejected 39,645 qualified applicants who wanted to pursue undergraduate or graduate programmes in the 2013-14 academic year.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, said the situation was worse this year because there were two groups of students that sat the West African Senior School Certificate Examination in May-June 2013. This was due to the shortening of the four-year senior high school course to three years.
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English: A group of drummers in Accra, Ghana, wearing dashiki shirts and knitted kufi caps. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
Aryeetey said about 37,507 undergraduates and 2,138 graduates were denied admission. He described as “painful” the decision to reject 881 applicants who obtained good aggregates.
“We are faced with the painful decision of having to turn down the applications of many otherwise well qualified applicants due to limitations of staff and facilities,” he said.
As a result of these limitations some science students said they had to sit selection tests to gain admission.
“I made the grades and was expecting to be admitted but the university authorities used a test that they conducted to deny my admission,” said Joseph Addo.
“My dream of gaining admission to study medicine has been dashed and I am not sure of what I can do because private universities are very expensive and my parents cannot afford to pay those fees,” Addo added.
English: The Tower on Legon Campus, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana. Français : La tour dominant la colline de Legon sur le campus de Legon à Accra, Ghana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]ASUU strike heats up admission in Ghanaian varsities
Ghana’s public universities are facing a boom in applications, but do not have sufficient facilities to meet growing demand that has been exacerbated by an influx of students from neighbouring countries and a double cohort leaving school this year.
As a result, admission to universities is no longer based on obtaining the required grades – some qualified candidates have been turned down or made to sit additional selection tests.
The situation has been compounded by students from neighbouring countries – especially Nigeria – competing with Ghanaians for admission. Nigerians have been seeking out Ghanaian institutions because of the frequent strikes that have bedevilled their public university campuses.
“Over the past four months, Nigerian universities have been on strike and students have been forced to stay at home so it is better for some of us to look elsewhere to educate our children,” a Nigerian parent, Folu Agbeniran, told University World News in Accra.
Agbeniran said he had spent a month in Ghana looking at institutions that could admit his child as a first-year political science student.
“It is expensive to send your child to universities in Europe because even if you have the money, the visa regime has become very complicated so it is only logical to turn to a neighbouring country where everything is working,” he said.
Local students have become frustrated as institutions put in place competitive procedures to select qualified applicants. This year the University of Ghana rejected 39,645 qualified applicants who wanted to pursue undergraduate or graduate programmes in the 2013-14 academic year.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, said the situation was worse this year because there were two groups of students that sat the West African Senior School Certificate Examination in May-June 2013. This was due to the shortening of the four-year senior high school course to three years.
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English: A group of drummers in Accra, Ghana, wearing dashiki shirts and knitted kufi caps. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]Aryeetey said about 37,507 undergraduates and 2,138 graduates were denied admission. He described as “painful” the decision to reject 881 applicants who obtained good aggregates.
“We are faced with the painful decision of having to turn down the applications of many otherwise well qualified applicants due to limitations of staff and facilities,” he said.
As a result of these limitations some science students said they had to sit selection tests to gain admission.
“I made the grades and was expecting to be admitted but the university authorities used a test that they conducted to deny my admission,” said Joseph Addo.
“My dream of gaining admission to study medicine has been dashed and I am not sure of what I can do because private universities are very expensive and my parents cannot afford to pay those fees,” Addo added.
9 March 2013
THERE WE GO AGAIN!...66% OF CANDIDATES FAILED ENGLISH IN NECO DEC 2012 EXAM
The National Examination Council, on Thursday, released the result of the 2012 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination with only 33.89 per cent of the 75,623 candidates that sat for the examination obtaining credit in English Language.
The NECO Registrar, Prof. Promise Okpala, who announced this at a press briefing in Minna, however said that 54.8 per cent of the candidates obtained credit passes in mathematics.
NECO Registrar, Professor Promise Okpala
Giving a breakdown of the performances of candidates, the NECO Registrar said a total of 83,755 candidates registered for the examination but only 75, 623 candidates actually sat for it.
Out of this number, the candidates recorded 33.89 per cent credit pass in English Language, 54.79 per cent credit pass in Mathematics, 78.97 per cent in Arabic and 22.84 per cent credit pass in Biology.
He added that only 6.51 per cent of candidates who sat for Christian Religious Studies obtained credit passes; Economics, 33.67 per cent Geography, 1.63 per cent; Literature in English, 0.73 per cent; Chemistry, 30.17 per cent, while only 0.26 per cent of candidates that sat for Physics made credit pass.
In spite of this unimpressive performance, Okpala disclosed that the 2012 result was an improvement in NECO result over the past three years.
According to him, only 4.7 per cent of the candidates that sat for the same examination in 2010 made credit pass in English Language, while only 10 per cent made credit pass in 2011.
He added that in 2010 only 19.4 per cent of the candidates made credit pass in Mathematics, while 44.7 per cent obtained credit pass in 2011.
“So, the November/December 2012 SSCE is comparatively better and a marked improvement over what we witnessed in 2010 and 2011,” he said.
He also said that the examination agency recorded few cases of examination malpractice. This, he said, was so because of the security measures put in place by NECO. These, he added, include robust logistics strategy for managing examination materials, the use of men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps as external monitor.
“This ensured that candidates conduct themselves responsibly during the examination,” he said.
Okpala, however, said that Taraba State, with 18.82 per cent, emerged as the state with the highest number of candidates with cases of examination malpractices.
Imo came second with 15.56 per cent and Jigawa, with a total of 956 candidates, recorded 140 cases or 14.6 per cent to emerge the third state with the highest number of candidates allegedly involved in malpractice during the examination.
He, however, said Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, recorded the lowest number of candidates involved in examination malpractices with 0.37 per cent.
The FCT was closely followed by Osun and Kwara states.
Enyioha Opara/PUNCH NEWSPAPER
The NECO Registrar, Prof. Promise Okpala, who announced this at a press briefing in Minna, however said that 54.8 per cent of the candidates obtained credit passes in mathematics.
NECO Registrar, Professor Promise Okpala
Giving a breakdown of the performances of candidates, the NECO Registrar said a total of 83,755 candidates registered for the examination but only 75, 623 candidates actually sat for it.
Out of this number, the candidates recorded 33.89 per cent credit pass in English Language, 54.79 per cent credit pass in Mathematics, 78.97 per cent in Arabic and 22.84 per cent credit pass in Biology.
He added that only 6.51 per cent of candidates who sat for Christian Religious Studies obtained credit passes; Economics, 33.67 per cent Geography, 1.63 per cent; Literature in English, 0.73 per cent; Chemistry, 30.17 per cent, while only 0.26 per cent of candidates that sat for Physics made credit pass.
In spite of this unimpressive performance, Okpala disclosed that the 2012 result was an improvement in NECO result over the past three years.
According to him, only 4.7 per cent of the candidates that sat for the same examination in 2010 made credit pass in English Language, while only 10 per cent made credit pass in 2011.
He added that in 2010 only 19.4 per cent of the candidates made credit pass in Mathematics, while 44.7 per cent obtained credit pass in 2011.
“So, the November/December 2012 SSCE is comparatively better and a marked improvement over what we witnessed in 2010 and 2011,” he said.
He also said that the examination agency recorded few cases of examination malpractice. This, he said, was so because of the security measures put in place by NECO. These, he added, include robust logistics strategy for managing examination materials, the use of men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps as external monitor.
“This ensured that candidates conduct themselves responsibly during the examination,” he said.
Okpala, however, said that Taraba State, with 18.82 per cent, emerged as the state with the highest number of candidates with cases of examination malpractices.
Imo came second with 15.56 per cent and Jigawa, with a total of 956 candidates, recorded 140 cases or 14.6 per cent to emerge the third state with the highest number of candidates allegedly involved in malpractice during the examination.
He, however, said Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, recorded the lowest number of candidates involved in examination malpractices with 0.37 per cent.
The FCT was closely followed by Osun and Kwara states.
Enyioha Opara/PUNCH NEWSPAPER
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