55,000 Children Failed BECE – Or Did We Fail Them?

Behind one examination result could be years of difficulty with reading, comprehension, numeracy, learning habits, language, attendance, teaching quality, overcrowded classrooms, home circumstances, learning differences or simply a system that moved a child forward without ensuring that the foundations had been mastered.

Let us examine the curriculum, teachers, classrooms, home and language environments, assessment system, transition system, learning resources, early-warning mechanisms, TVET pathways, parental role and our assumptions about what it means to be educated.

The real reform is learning to identify and address that gap much earlier.