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Head of Psychology at University of Ghana, Prof. Joseph Osafo has called on the West African Examination Council (WAEC) to disallow school children between the ages of 9 and 13 years from participating in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) is currently going on and will end on Friday, September 18, 2020 for all Junior High School (JHS) final year students.

Speaking on 'Kokrokoo' on Peace FM, Prof. Joseph Osafo held that making children who fall within the aforementioned age range write the BECE affects their mental health.

This is because, he noted, they don't have the emotional capacity to handle the examination shocks or anxiety that comes with writing the final examinations.

He added some children who fail the exams become suicidal and so charged the examination authorities to note that ''the integrity of our exams affects the integrity of the mental health of our children''.

"The argument should be how best can we make sure that a child between the ages of 9 and let's say 13 years doesn't fail JSS exams and for which reason he or she should remain home . . . This picture of failing and writing and failing, at that stage, I think it is too much," he appealed.