The 2024-year Group of Teacher Trainees of the St John Bosco’s College of Education in Navrongo in the Upper East Region, have called on the school’s authorities to hold on with any resit examinations until their concerns regarding irregularities on the Student Information Portal (SIP) are fixed.
The students are demanding the correction of several mistakes on the student portal to ensure each student is assigned the grades they earned.
At a press conference held on Saturday March 15, 2025, at the school’s premises, the students bemoaned the number of irregularities on the portal, which they say have been communicated to school authorities for corrections but remain the same after several months.
They noted that over seventy students from the 2024-year group do not have access to the portal, thereby leaving them in the dark regarding the status of their grades.
“About 76 trainees from our year group do not have access to their portals. It is sad to mention that all these trainees cannot also access their results.” They lamented.
They also indicated that the remaining students captured on the portal have a myriad of challenges including; changed courses, mismatched results, wrong bio-data and misrepresentation of Continuous Assessment (CA) scores as final exams scores.
“It is alarming and shocking to see a course you have not done appear in your portal. Another surprising thing on our portal is having results totally different from what was posted on the college’s notice board before the creation of the SIP portal.” They noted
They shed light on why they will not resit the courses, indicating that results of some courses have not been published.
“How do you tell someone he or she failed, without showing his or her results.” – they questioned
The student group concluded by calling on stakeholders including the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), Ghana Education Service, Ministry of Education, Ghana Tertiary Education Council (GTEC), to intervene in ensuring that these challenges are addressed.
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