Thirty-Four prisoners sit for BECE 2024

Thirty-four
prisoners
are
participating
in
this
year’s
Basic
Education
Certificate
Examination
(BECE).

The
BECE,
organized
annually
in
Ghana’s
education
system,
marks
the
transition
from
Junior
High
Schools
to
Senior
High
Schools
and
Technical
Institutions
in
Ghana.

The
candidates,
all
males,
include
27
juveniles
from
the
Senior
Correctional
Centre
(SCC),
5
from
Nsawam
Maximum
Security
Prison,
and
2
from
Sunyani
Central
Prison.

In
an
interview,
the
Greater
Accra
Regional
Public
Relations
Officer,
DSP
Loretta
Valentina
Amoah,
mentioned
that
the
inmates
have
been
fully
prepared
by
qualified,
trained
teachers
of
the
service
and
some
from
the
Ghana
Education
Service.

She
was
optimistic
that
the
inmates
would
pass
all
the
subjects
and
come
out
with
flying
colours.

DSP
Valentina
Amoah
also
highlighted
that
challenges,
such
as
inadequate
teaching
and
learning
materials
impede
the
preparation
process
for
the
inmates
to
upgrade
themselves.

She
urged
the
public
to
come
to
the
aid
of
the
inmates,
especially
the
juveniles,
and
donate
materials
such
as
textbooks
and
past
questions
to
enhance
their
studies
and
make
learning
fun.

An
interview
with
some
of
the
inmate
candidates
revealed
that
this
year’s
BECE
is
going
to
be
one
of
the
best
due
to
how
fully
they
have
been
prepared
by
their
teachers.

They
commended
the
teachers
for
their
hard
work
and
promised
to
make
them
proud.

The
Ghana
Prisons
Service,
in
its
quest
to
deliver
on
its
reformation
and
rehabilitation
mandate
in
line
with
modern
universal
best
practices,
introduced
formal
education
to
the
inmates
on
a
pilot
basis
at
the
Senior
Correctional
Centre
in
2007
and
later
extended
it
to
the
other
prisons.

This
was
to
help
the
inmates
acquire
some
basic
literacy
skills
as
well
as
a
certificate
to
facilitate
their
smooth
reintegration.

The
first
batch
made
up
of
21
juveniles
and
young
offenders,
sat
for
the
Basic
Education
Certificate
Examination
in
2009
and
recorded
100%,
and
has
since
been
recording
100%
passes
in
2009.

Last
year,
51
prisoners
across
the
country
sat
for
BECE
and
also
recorded
a
100%
pass.