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The commissioner for education, Prof. Kaniye Ebeku, said the issuance of the BEC was in line with the Federal Government\u2019s 9-3-4 education policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Prof. Ebeku who spoke at the official launch of the BEC in Port Harcourt on Thursday, the state would now begin to issue the BEC to students upon completion of junior secondary education, so he called on all principals of junior secondary schools, parents, guardians, and the general public to be aware of the new policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commissioner elucidated that that students will have to take the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE)&nbsp;at Basic Nine (JSS3) to obtain BEC, and without the BEC, they won&#8217;t be allowed to proceed to senior secondary schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers State Ministry of Education on Thursday, Feb 24, 2022, announced the replacement of the First School Leaving Certificate,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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