BEC Needs To Get Its House In Order

The importance of the Botswana Examinations Coucil’s (BEC) mandate cannot be overemphasised. As members of the society, we are always preaching the importance of education, as an effort to motivate the young generation to take their studies seriously.

BEC is tasked with conducting school examinations and any other exam for the Ministry of Basic Education and issue certificates.

On its website the exam body clearly states that: “BEC’s key business activities include examinations and assessment policy and programme development, the conduct and regulation of national school examination programmes and the award of certificates for programmes in general education subsector”.

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