AWE Media Sierra Leone

B y: Amadu Wurie Jalloh-(AWJ-"SAWN👍) ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ It's rhetorical to assume that the only panacea to massive failure in external examinations in Sierra Leone is to upgrade the education standard of the country. This paradox has been resounded in the just released WASSCE results which, by all indications out there, is the worst result since after the War in Sierra Leone.  Many people have taken to social media blaming students' unpreparedness, immaturity, and incapability for the mass failures. Proponents of this believe that the reenforcement of regulatory and supervisory measures by the government, and of course making punishable the act of selling grades, are a possible explanation of the plague, which is not far from the truth. But we however cannot factor out 'lack of accountability and transparency' in the conduct of exams and reward of grades to students. We have s...

B y: Amadu Wurie Jalloh-(AWJ-"SAWN👍) ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ It's rhetorical to assume that the only panacea to massive failure in external examinations in Sierra Leone is to upgrade the education standard of the country. This paradox has been resounded in the just released WASSCE results which, by all indications out there, is the worst result since after the War in Sierra Leone.  Many people have taken to social media blaming students' unpreparedness, immaturity, and incapability for the mass failures. Proponents of this believe that the reenforcement of regulatory and supervisory measures by the government, and of course making punishable the act of selling grades, are a possible explanation of the plague, which is not far from the truth. But we however cannot factor out 'lack of accountability and transparency' in the conduct of exams and reward of grades to students. We have s...