The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNCOP) has called for an independent probe into the marking of scripts of BECE candidates from private schools.
According to the council, private schools often do much better than their counterparts in public schools, but currently, private schools are being marked deliberately down in the BECE to give candidate from public schools an upper hand.
The President of GNACOP, Enoch Gyetuah, in an interview on the Citi Breakfast Show, said the the allegedly discrimination has resulted in the challenges many parents who’s wards registered for the BECE with private schools are facing.
“Most of the private school students have been marked down, and we are calling for re-marking and even calling for an independent body to go into that.
Government has reserved 30% allocation to people in the public schools so meaning that if we write the same exams, and I am coming from a public school, I will be placed before someone from a private school irrespective of the grades we have,” he said.
He argued that most parents of private schools enrol their wards in public schools for their final exams to avoid discrimination.
