If you can hold elections, students can take exams — OpenFees
Open-Fees, a non-governmental organisation that caters for the basic education of indigent students, has said if politicians can hold elections, following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, it should also be possible for final year students to take their exams. The group asked the Federal Government and other stakeholders to stop the politics and take a stand, on the 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, WASSCE, for the sake of students whose future at stake. In a statement yesterday, OpenFees said: "Science, technology and rigorous enforcement of hygiene and social distancing rules are already making it possible for schools elsewhere to reopen gradually and there is no reason why we can’t use that here". “We are particularly concerned that JSS 3 and SS 3 students in public schools most of who have not had significant learning, because of poor access to online resources would have to wait for another year before taking their final exams. “If govern...