The Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has cautioned final-year college students of senior excessive colleges (SHSs) writing the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) to desist from unruly acts which have the potential to tarnish the picture of their colleges and run them into hassle.
The warning comes within the wake of alerts picked up by the service from some colleges which point out that a number of the college students writing their ultimate examination have began vandalising college property in addition to harassing a few of theirjuniors in kinds one and two.
Already, there are indications that some first-year college students in plenty of colleges have run from their colleges for concern of being harassed by their seniors after their ultimate paper, which can happen on Friday, October 8.
An announcement issued in Accra on the weekend signed by the Director-General of the Service, Professor KwasiOpoku-Amankwa, stated “ It has come to the attention of management, rather regrettably, plans by some students to misbehave as they end their examinations and wish to caution all students to be careful since no act of indiscipline will be tolerated.”
He stated regional administrators of training have been to work with heads of colleges and the safety companies to make sure most safety and safety of lives and properties in all SHSs and any pupil discovered culpable must be made to face the complete rigours of the regulation.
Prof Opoku-Amankwa urged dad and mom and guardians to advise their kids and wards to exhibit self-discipline all through the final week of the examination and as such desist from any type of unruly behaviour, stressing that,“Any pupil who’s arrested for misconduct can be prosecuted and additional surcharged with the price of harm.
He stated it was the expectation of administration that every one the stakeholders,together with the safety companies, would work collectively to make sure free finish of the 2021 WASSCE.
In addition to the warning, the Director-General inspired all candidates to proceed to work exhausting as they enter into the final part of the examination and pray for God’s continued steering and windfall.
BY CLIFF EKUFUL
