Some invigilators and supervisors of the on-going Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Ashanti Region are threatening to boycott the exercise.<\/p>\n
According to them,\u00a0the Ghana Education Service (GES) owes them transportation fares from last year and until that is settled, they will withdraw their services as invigilators.<\/p>\n
The Ashanti Region has\u00a0the highest number of candidates for the week long examination.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”t4dv5vrCmQM880SQsApeGOS9Oh96Pmpe”]A total of, 87,815\u00a0 made up of 45,197 boys and 42,618 girls.<\/p>\n
The supervisor of the invigilators, Owusu Sakyi told Citi News<\/strong>, the money owed them from last year is just GHC 50 but after taxes, their take home is GHC 33<\/p>\n He stated that the invigilators say they will inivigilate until 3pm on Wednesday and if \u201cthe government does not release the money, they will go back to their classrooms and teach on Thursday and Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Sakyi pointed out that the teachers are aggrieved because they commute from their various stations to the examination centers therefore, it is important that their transportation fares are paid.<\/p>\n Meanwhile following reported cases of female student absenteeism in the examination, the Education Ministry is promising to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n Deputy Education Minister in charge of Pre-Tertiary Education, Alex Kyeremeh told Citi News<\/strong>, such developments affect government\u2019s quest to bridge the gender parity gap, hence, their resolve to investigate and bring an end to such happenings.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you look at the genral statistics for this year, we are bridging the gender parity gap and those absent, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s so much but we\u2019ve also asked the supervisors at the various centres to do their own investigations since headteachers were not there for further interrogation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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