The Vice President, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh has expressed his dissatisfaction over examination malpractice involving candidates who sat to public examinations, including the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), and the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Vice President Jalloh described examination malpractice as one of the single most threat to basic quality education.
He made the statement while delivering keynote speech and launched of the Annual Education Week at the Bintumani Conference Center in Freetown on December 7, 2020.
“Pupils who involve in exam malpractices are the same people involve in corruption in offices,” he said.
If you see people taking bribes, go back and look for their teachers and ask how they were fearing on with their schools, they were the ones involved in examination malpractices. This is a habit you carry on from school, because you program yourself to cheat, and you cheat all the way after university,” Vice President Jalloh told the audience.
Vice President Jalloh reiterated that the New Direct Government is focusing on curbing exam malpractices, because it has realized that it is a single most important threat to the nation.
Dr. Jalloh explained that Government is playing its part by employing teachers, paying fees, providing teaching and learning materials, noting that it is, therefore, the responsibility of parents and the society to ensure that their children become competitive in school. “This is to ensure that their children become good citizens in society,” he said.
By: Aaron Bundu Lahai-Head of Media & Public Relation
9/12/2020. ISSUE NO: 7964