Nearly all teachers are guilty of the code of conduct on public examinations

Public examinations are an annual affair as students write their final exams. BECE and WASSCE as typical public examinations that involve GES staff require staff to be ethical and honest in performing their duties in any capacity including invigilating.

 Per the GES‘ own code of conduct, “No staff acting as an invigilator or a supervisor shall offer assistance to candidate(s) at National or public examinations with the intent to cheat.”

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Sadly, many teachers while performing their roles as invigilators or supervisors have broken this code countless times. 

This is so because, at some centers, schools and school owners and heads of schools contribute to feeding invigilators. Such contributions when made by schools can compel the invigilators and the supervisor to relax the rules of the examination. 

Teachers are humans and feel for candidates they are invigilating. In some instances, they are tempted to offer help to students during such examinations in diverse ways. Such assistance may include allowing students to communicate in the exams hall which is contrary to the BECE and WASSCE rules.

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 “No staff shall give fore-knowledge or leak internal or public examination questions to any candidate/person.” This code of conduct is breached during the two major national examinations and in some instances.

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If the above are being broken then rules of conduct such as  “No staff shall connive at and or condone collusion or copying at internal or public examinations.” and “No staff shall indulge in or encourage any act of impersonation at public examinations.” occur more frequently.