If you have to give parents and students exhaustive warning and time to pay their exam fees and you still have 10% not making the payments, would it ever occur to you that maybe you ought to take a look at:
1. Whether the fee is too exhorbitant for them to afford.
2. Whether there is value in paying for the examination
3. Whether the students have received the education to be examined for.
I am sure parents would not put their children through school for a whole year and be negligent enough to forget to pay for their kids' advancing examinations. Who left their brains at their last shit-break???
Les plus importants transformations sont les modifications "accidentelles".
From: Ngorr Ciise <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The reality in The Gambia today. Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:19:36 +0000Dampha:
____________________________________ 53 Students Miss Grade 9 Final Exams The Daily Observer (Banjul) April 23, 2002 Posted to the web April 23, 2002
Chief Manneh
About 53 students at the Greater Banjul Upper Basic School have missed their Grade Nine final examinations as a result of late payment of examination fees. Speaking to Daily Observer recently Dembo Jallow, who is in charge of exams fees said the school had made tremendous effort in receiving early payments in order to spare students the embarrassment of missing their examinations. He said their early warning for examination fee payment was made before January 18, 2002 upon the request of WAEC for submission and only 281 candidates paid out of 578 candidates. He added that the school authorities made an appeal to WAEC to extend the deadline to January 31, 2002 and only another 210 candidates paid. He said another extension was requested for the month of February and again only 35 students paid. Mr Jallow disclosed that some of the students parents were to be blame because enough time was given to them to effect their wards' payments . He said the examination was slated for March and the examining body accepting entries in February meant they have put in enough effort for their candidates to sit for their final exams. Vice principal Almameh Colley blamed the negligence of parents for the lack of early payment of the exam fees.