Private school owners across the state are raising urgent alarms, warning that at least 70 percent of their SS3 students may be unable to sit the examination if the government does not immediately relax its requirement that all WASSCE candidates possess a Learner Identification Number (LIN) — a unique code issued through the state’s education portal.
A Platform in Chaos
While the government frames the LIN policy as a routine data-gathering exercise, school proprietors say the real problem lies in a chaotic digital migration that has left thousands of students’ records either missing or inaccessible.