ELECTIVE ICT - MOCK EXAMINATION 2023

 

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Instructions

Section A consists of forty (40) objective questions and should be answered within a countdown time of forty (45) minutes.

Section C

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Elective ICT Exams: End of First Semester Examination - 2023

Elective ICT students of Power College are to use this portal to access their Online Examination Questions.

Instructions

Section A consists of forty (40) objective questions and should be answered within a countdown time of forty (45) minutes.

SECTION C 

 

Project Work

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General Business Certificate holders can enter tertiary institutions - WAEC

Wendy Addy-Lamptey - Head of National Office of WAEC

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has explained that holders of the General Business Certificate Examination (GBCE) results are qualified for admission into level 100 in any tertiary institution in the country.

It has further stated that those holding the Advanced Business Certificate Examination (ABCE) results can enter the tertiary institutions at level 200.

The directive follows the approval by the then National Accreditation Board, now Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), for the use of the (G/ABCE) qualifications as requirements for entry into tertiary institutions in the country.

Equivalent

Throwing more light on the G/ABCE qualifications and equivalents in an interview with the Daily Graphic, the Head of National Office of WAEC, Wendy Enyonam Addy-Lamptey, said G/ABCE were approved and accredited examinations.

She said holders of the GBCE results were equally qualified to enter the university just as those holding the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results.

Mrs Addy-Lamptey explained that some tertiary institutions seemed not to be comfortable with candidates holding such qualifications, assuring them that those certificates were authentic and could be equated with the WASSCE.

"Tertiary institutions should not entertain any doubt about the equation of the G/ABCE certificates or qualifications. An A in the G/ABCE is as good as the A1 in the WASSCE," she explained.

Referring to the release of the 2022 G/ABCE results, Mrs Addy-Lamptey was excited that not a single case of malpractice was recorded before, during and after the examination.

2022 Results

A total of 305 candidates sat for the ABCE while 260 candidates sat for the GBCE. According to WAEC, the results could be accessed online at www.waecgh.org

The council cautioned the public and the candidates against fraudsters, saying, “The Council is alerting members of the public, especially candidates to be on the lookout for fraudsters who may approach them and promise to upgrade examination results for a fee.”

The council assured the candidates that their results were secure and could be authenticated using the results verification system or by downloading the WAEC QR code.

Evolution

Giving an evolution of the G/ABCE, Mrs Addy-Lamptey explained that it was formerly the Stage II and III RSA Certificates, which localisation began in 1983 and was completed in 1990, with the WAEC taking over and changing the name to Ghana Commercial Examinations.

She said in 1997 however, the Stage II examination was renamed as GBCE, while the Stage III was named the ABCE.

"In 2001, the council introduced the November/December series of the ABCE in addition to the May/June series.

"For the GBCE, all subjects are available in May/June, with only Information Technology examined in November/December," she explained.

Mrs. Addy-Lamptey further explained that in 2004, in a bid to make tertiary education more accessible to G/ABCE certificate holders, the Social Studies and Integrated Science syllabuses for the SSSCE were adopted and introduced into the GBCE.

"Due to the low candidature for the November/December series of examinations with its financial losses to the council, a decision was taken to end the November/December series in 2017," Mrs. Addy-Lamptey explained.

She said currently, the students taking the GBCE also took the same core subjects — English Language, Mathematics, Integrated Science and Social Studies — as the WASSCE candidates.

"In fact, the same syllabuses are studied for both examinations. In addition, the same number of papers are taken at both examinations in all the core subjects," she added.

Source: Graphic.com

Elective ICT Online Exercise 1

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Deadline for this assignment is Friday, 10th June 2022 at 6:00pm.

Thank you.

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Education Ministry released 2022 SHS placements

The Ministry of Education has publicized the 2022 Computerized School Selection and Placement Systems (CSSPS) for students into Senior High Schools (SHS) yesterday, Saturday, March 26.

According to the Ministry, 367, 811 candidates out of the 555,353 who qualified for the placement have been placed automatically into schools of their choice.

The remaining 187, 542 qualified candidates will, however, have to do self-placement to available schools since they could not be matched with any of their choices.

“The 2021/2022 Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) into Senior High Schools (SHS)/ Senior High Technical Schools (SHTS) and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutes, will go live on Saturday, March 26, 2022,” a statement from the Ministry and sighted by Citi News noted.

The Ministry of Education assured candidates of its commitment to ensure that all qualified candidates are placed successfully.

The public is assured of the Ministry’s commitment to ensure all qualified candidates are placed in SHS/SHTS/TVET institutions.

A call center with a toll-free number, 0302987654 has also been set up to address related concerns.

Last month, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) released the results of candidates who sat for the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

Out of the results released, 138 candidates had their subject results cancelled for the offense of either bringing in foreign materials into the examination hall or colluding with other candidates.

2021 BECE Statistics

A total of 572,167 candidates made up of 287,730 males and 284,437 females entered the examination.

Among the registered candidates, 61 had visual impairment and 321 were identified with hearing impairment.

In addition, 86 candidates had special assessment needs due to other conditions.

The total entry figure was 7.61./0 higher than the 2020 entry of 531,707.

In all, 18,028 schools presented candidates for the examination, which was administered at 2,158 centres.

Out of the total number of candidates who registered, 7,315 (1.28%) were absent.

Source: Citinewsroom.com

Pupils boycott classes over lack of Teachers

Pupils of Breman Essuokor D/A Basic school in the Asikuma Odobeng Brakwa District of the Central Region have boycotted classes since Monday, 7th February 2022, over lack of teachers.

The pupils demonstrated on Monday to register their displeasure and to call on authorities to pay attention to their situation.

The pupils claim there’s only one teacher who teaches the whole Junior High School, a situation that is affecting teaching and learning.

Speaking to Citi News, the pupils said only one teacher has since the resumption of the academic year reported to the school.

They claim the teacher handles JHS 1 to 3.

Gideon Aidoo, school prefect of the school said, “We need teachers so we can learn. Having one teacher taking all three classes is worrying. The JHS 3 students are concerned this would affect them the more even as they prepare towards their final exams.”

Naomi Otoo, also a JHS3 Pupil said; “We need teachers. We’ll plead with the government to give us teachers. We’re in JHS 3 and without teachers, how can we write our final exams without teachers?

They appealed to the government to come to their aid.

Even though the District Chief Executive for Asikuma Odobeng Brakwa, Lawrence Edutuah-Esiaw had promised to speak to Citi News on the matter, subsequent attempts to reach him proved futile.

Source: Citinewsroom.com

Economics Online Exercise 3

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Economics Online Exercise 2

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Deadline for this assignment is Tuesday, 1st February 2022.

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Dropping semester-based system was in response to teachers’ opposition – Adutwum

The Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, says the decision to return to the trimester system for basic schools was solely to appease teachers, who had reservations about the semester system.

Explaining the rationale behind the turnaround on the Citi Breakfast Show, Dr. Adutwum said there were no substantial merits to picking either system.

The directive for basic schools, including Kindergarten, and Junior High Schools, to change the trimester-based calendar to a semester-based sparked opposition from teacher unions.

The unions were also upset that they had not been consulted, although giovernment said the reps of the unions had been engaged.

“If going a trimester is what would make them happy since we are going to attain the same goal at the same number of weeks, why not… I didn’t find it difficult at all to say that I would be on the side of the teachers who believe the trimester was better,” Dr. Adutwum said.

Aside from appeasing the teachers, the Minister also said choosing between the two systems was a matter of convenience.

“In this particular instance, there is no research that says that the semester is better than a trimester. It is just used for convenience around the world.”

“Some of these things are based on convenience. It doesn’t say that once you do a trimester, it is a silver bullet.”

Source: Citinewsroom.com

Economics Online Exercise

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We’ll support teacher unions to stop semester system – Minority

The Minority in Parliament has backed the teacher unions’ opposition to the Ghana Education Service’s semester system for basic and secondary schools.

In a statement, the Minority called on the Service and the Ministry of Education to withdraw the new academic calendar “because it lacks professional touch for a more academic friendly and healthy one to be considered.”

It feels the semester  “is an importation which does not suit our Ghanaian educational environment.”

“As a Minority, we fully support the teacher unions in whatever democratic means they will take to stop this semester system being imposed on them,” it added.

The Minority also urged the unions to be more vocal in their opposition to the new system “so that the health of both the teachers and the children is not compromised.”

“We are of the strong conviction that the teacher unions in the country are aware of this academic calendar and have studied it and given the needed analysis. As professionals, we believe that the welfare of your members as well as the children that you teach is paramount to you.”

“The Minority, therefore, thinks strongly that you have to add your voice to this call so that the health of both the teachers and the children is not compromised.”

The unions have called on the government to engage all stakeholders in education, including civil society organizations.

The Ghana Education Service has expressed its willingness to continually engage with teacher unions on the change of the trimester-based academic calendar to a semester system for basic schools.

Find below the full statement

MINORITY KICKS AGAINST THE INTRODUCTION OF SEMESTER CALENDAR IN PRE-TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS.

For many years now, it has been the responsibility of the Ghana Education Service to fix the academic calendar for all pre-tertiary institutions-basic and secondary levels –in the country. It was done in such a way that before the academic year ended, all schools received the calendar for the next academic year for teachers and managers of schools to know their way forward .It helped teachers to plan their activities for the first term because any reshuffles or transfers are effected in the last weeks of the academic for teachers to know which classes they would be managing as well as which schools they would be transferred.

However, in the last three to five years the situation has not been normal. Since the implementation of the Free Senior High School programme, the fixing of the academic calendar has become very difficult and problematic for the managers of our school system in the country. It got out of hand when the double track was introduced. It got everybody confused in the country that no one at a point in time hardly tell when one track was in school or out of it. It brought inequalities in the senior high school system such that the tracks offered unequal numbers of weeks at school.

It is very well understood that the COVID-19 pandemic had a very adverse effect on our educational system in 2020 when all schools had to close down in March 2020 till January 2021. It brought about the loss of almost one academic year and we acknowledge the efforts government through the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service made to normalise the school calendar.

However, going forward the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service are professionally getting it wrong in fixing the academic calendar for basic schools in the country.

It is interesting to note that a technical committee was set up by the Minister of Education under the Chairmanship of the Deputy Minister instead of the professionals; the Director –General himself or any of his two deputies. This committee was to propose the calendar for the approval of the Minister. This is one reason why the release of dates for the academic calendar delayed. Why should the Ministry of Education take over the responsibility of the Ghana Education Service in the preparation of a common academic calendar? Is the Ministry of Education becoming the policy making body and the implementer at the same time?

The outcome of work of this technical committee, which we describe as “professionally wrong” is the introduction of the semester type of academic calendar in our basic schools from Kindergarten to the Junior High School. It is on record that last year, the system was introduced at the Junior High School level with the explanation that it was aimed at making the students and teachers cover what was lost as contact hours in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is also now clear that our academic year begins from January and ends in December per the new academic calendar. That arrangement by itself has a lot of ramifications for the students/pupils and teachers with respect to examinations calendar of the West African Examination Council for the year.

It is expected that from Tuesday, 18th January, 2020, our children in the basic schools are to run a semester of twenty (20) weeks. We know that a normal semester runs for sixteen (16) weeks, so, why make it twenty weeks for basic schools? This means that for 2022 academic year two semesters will be run.

What is intriguing about the academic calendar is the failure of the technical committee to consider the age of the learners for whom they have developed the calendar. Hitherto, we know of three terms in the year with clear enough days and weeks for both learners and teachers to rest and prepare for the next term of between twelve (12) and fourteen (14) weeks. With this current arrangement, both learners and teachers are at a risk. The age of the learners, it is noted, is not ready to absorb anything tangible after twelve long weeks in school. There is learner fatigue and absenteeism becomes the order of the day. We do not know if the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education conducted any studies into the effects of the semester system carried out in JHS in 2021. If they did they would know that fatigue set in and attendance suffered.

Another factor that does not make the semester programme conducive for basic schools is the environment within which teaching and learning takes place. In many of our basic schools throughout the country, infrastructure is the biggest challenge. Some of schools are conducted under trees, dilapidated classrooms where ventilation is poor.

Furniture is another limitation in our schools and many learners bring kitchen stools from home. How do we expect children as young as four or six, sit in poorly ventilated classrooms and on not – to- fit furniture for twenty weeks?

It is also important to note that most of the children at the basic level travel distances to schools and parents although may want their children to remain at school for long, the financial burden will be too much for them to bear.

TEACHER UNIONS:

We are of the strong conviction that the teacher unions in the country are aware of this academic calendar and have studied it and given the needed analysis. As professionals, we believe that the welfare of your members as well as the children that you teach is paramount to you.

The Minority therefore thinks strongly that you have to add your voice to this call so that the health of both the teachers and the children is not compromised.

CONCLUSION:

The Minority wishes to call in the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education to withdraw the outdoored academic calendar because it lacks professional touch for a more academic friendly and healthy one to be considered.

The Minority also withes to call on the Ghana Education Service to maintain its professional stance and not allow the Minister of Education to dictate the pace for them. This academic calendar is an importation which does not suit our Ghanaian educational environment.

As a Minority we fully support the teacher unions in whatever democratic means they will take to stop this semester system being imposed on them.

Signed.

PETER NORTSU-KOTOE

RANKING MEMBER ON EDUCATION

Source: Citinesroom.com

We’ll fiercely resist semester-based academic calendar – Education Unions

Teacher Unions in the basic education sector have kicked against the government’s change of the trimester-based academic calendar to a semester-based one.

The unions; GNAT, NAGRAT, TEWU, and CCT-GH in a joint statement said they are disappointed that for such a major decision, the government did not consult or engage them.

“We state emphatically that at no point in time were the Unions in Education consulted on such a major policy decision…Per our Collective Agreement with regard to our working conditions, major policies such as this should come for discussion and negotiation,” they said in the statement.

The unions said, among other things that, such a move will lead to a long school calendar and will have a negative effect on the health of pupils and education workers.

They consequently called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to immediately withdraw the plan or risk having them fiercely resist it.

“We, therefore, call on the GES to immediately withdraw the policy, pending full consultations with the Unions in Education and other major stakeholders and do serve notice, that failure to do so would be resisted fiercely,” they said.

The Ghana Education Service last week announced the introduction of a semester-based academic calendar for public Kindergarten, Primary, and Junior High Schools.

Among other things, GES said, the new system will help ease pressure on teachers, decongest the various schools, and help align academic calendars.

Some stakeholders and civil society organisations have already kicked against the move, saying that it is unrealistic and will be mentally draining.

Others insisted that the government failed to consult them, but the Deputy Director-General for Quality and Access of the Ghana Education Service, Dr. Kwabena Tandoh, in an interview on the Citi Breakfast Show, said all stakeholders were consulted and duly agreed with the plan before its announcement.

Citi97.3 · Understanding Ghana's new educational structure with Dr K B. Tandoh

Source: Citinewsroom.com