Education Minister Engage School Authorities on Students’ Poor Performance in English at Public Exams
Binta Koroma In a significant stride to curtail the abysmal performance of students in English language on public examinations, Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Conrad Sackey, took time off to engage authorities of schools in the country.
The meeting brought together the Minister and school administrators and educators to speak on the poor performance issue and share ideas on ways to tackle the problem.
Analyzing the probable reasons responsible for the situation, Minister Sackey said the situation could be traced back to the document of the result of egma-egra base line assessment in 2021, which stated that our kids were suffering from learning poverty. That is at age 10 they could not read and comprehend.
He said a significant amount of the pupils are in that position, making it hard for them to not only comprehend but to apply critical thinking.
He however assured that all is not lost, stating that the government has taken that result head-on and as a resolve have made the foundation of learning the center point of their strategy to transform the educational system.
On the part of the Educators, Board Chairman of 3 Technical Secondary School, Philip John Kanu, said though the performance on English language is appalling, they as educators would find a way to salvage the situation, adding that the good news is the fact that the Minister is keenly interested.
Abdul Salam Conteh, principal of Benevolent Islamic Secondary School in Makeni, acknowledged the Minister’s inputs and commended the government’s efforts in investing in the country’s educational system. He furthered that though a research team has been set up to look at all these possibilities contributing to the problem, they too as teachers and examiners also need to improve.
What about the withhold results
We apologies to the Minister’s to release the witheld result with flying colors.
Let them publish the withheld results first and later find out why the massive failures of students in English.
The heads of schools know the truth, but they are hiding it. Things will continue to worse if we don’t face the truth. Honestly students are no longer learning in school, they no longer see studies as a way of getting high grades. They all relied on examination malpractices. Everybody knows that and nobody wants to talk about that.
Say something about the withholding results. The issue of English language this year was a conspiracy
How about the WASSCE & BECE results witheld?
What about the withheld results sir, most of we don’t enroll in the university because of the withheld results please sir help us, most of we came in a poor family please sir help us 🙏 🙏🙏🙏😢