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We’ve not seen even a computer mouse before but we’ll write ICT – BECE candidates lament

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With less than a week to the commencement of the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) final year pupils of Akplorfudzi E.P/M.A Basic School say the odds are stuck against them. The 22 BECE candidates of the school, located in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region have raised serious academic and infrastructural concerns which they strongly believe would cause them to perform poorly in the final exam. The thought of writing subjects they have little knowledge about sends constant shivers down their spines. A major concern raised by the distressed students are the lack of computers at an empty room labelled as 'ICT Lab', lack of books at the school’s library and the lack teachers. Sadly, most of the students have never seen even a computer mouse  before. They say they have not even seen a computer before. However,  Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is one of the subjects they will be assessed in during BECE to be conducted by the W