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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Thursday said it had approved the commencement of an additional diet in its examination for the private candidates every year. The council’s Registrar, Dr Iyi Uwadiae announced the approval at a news conference in Lagos. Uwadiae said the move was in connection with the growing concerns among stakeholders over what they perceived as discrimination or denial of equal opportunity to private candidates. “WAEC conducts its West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) twice every year, in May/June for school candidates and in November/December for private candidates. “The council also conducts various national examinations in the member countries except Nigeria. “Now, the school candidates who wish to retake the examination usually have the opportunity of doing so with the private candidates’ examination. “With this development, there has been a wave of agitation, criticisms and appeal across the sub-region for the council

The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, says it will soon begin the conduct of its examination for private candidates, popularly called GCE, twice in a year with effect from 2017. The council Registrar, Iyi Uwadiae, spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria on the sidelines of the council’s “Registrar’s Staff Appraisal Committee’’ meeting on Wednesday in Accra, Ghana. Mr. Uwadiae said, “The West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates known as the November/December diet for private candidates will now be conducted in January/February and August/September.’’ According to him, the measure is to ensure that many private candidates, who desire the certificate for various purposes, will have the opportunity of writing the examination and acquire the certificate. “We have concluded arrangements to commence writing of our WASSCE for private candidates twice a year from 2017. “This will take place in January /February and August/September ev

Mass failure in Nov/Dec 2010 WASSCE The recently released results of the 2017 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), has recorded mass failures. The November/December 2017 WASSCE results were officially released in Katsina State, on Tuesday, during the 55th Annual Meeting of the Nigeria National Committee (NNC). WAEC’s Nigeria National Officer, Mr. Olu Adenipekun, said of the 131,485 candidates,  only 34,664, (26.01%) obtained five credits, including English Language and General Mathematics. Expressing disappointment, Adenipekun stated that the result indicates a decline in the percentage of candidates who made five credits including English and Mathematics, in comparism with those of last two years. READ ALSO:  WAEC releases results of 2017 private candidates The WAEC boss said the results of 14,756 candidates, representing 11.07 per cent of candidates, were withheld on the grounds of alleged examination malpractice, adding that the results are

Chux Ohai The Nigerian National Office of the West African Examinations Council has introduced a new diet of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination in fulfilment of its pledge to provide an opportunity to private candidates desiring to sit the examination for the second time. Speaking at an event organised in Lagos to unveil the new diet, the Head of WAEC’s Nigeria National Office, Mr. Isaac Adenipekun, said that registration of candidates for the examination started on October 9 and it would end on December 29. He said, “With the growing concern among stakeholders over what they perceive as discrimination or denial of equal opportunity against private candidates, there has been a deluge of agitation, criticism and appeal across the West African sub-region for council to find a way of reducing the agony of long waiting experienced by the private candidates who desire another shot at WASSCE.Adenipekun said that secondary school pupils who wished to resit the exami

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has created a new diet of its examination to cater for a large number of external candidates registering for the examination. The Head, National Officer of WAEC, Mr Olu Adenipekun (third from right) with other principal officers at the unveiling of the 2018 diet of the examination for private candidates The council’s Head, National Office (HNO), Mr Olu Adenipekun, disclosed this at the unveiling of the first series of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) diet for private candidates on Wednesday in Lagos. According to him, the council has noted that a large number of external candidates are registering for the WASSCE meant for school candidates.  He said that this led to an astronomical increase in cheats being caught during the conduct of the examination.  “After thorough deliberations on the issue, the governing board of the Council approved that its national offices should begin the conduct of one additional

The government will absorb the registration fees of 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in public junior high schools. The registration fee is GHc 75 per candidate in both private and government schools. This was contained in a memo sighted by  Citi News , from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to the Metropolitan, Municipal, District and Directors of Education. The registration for the candidates is scheduled to take place from November 13 to December 15, 2017. Students resitting are to register as private candidates. WAEC warned the directors of education in the memo that it will “nullify entries of private schools that select school types wrongly and thereby do not pay fees.” This marks the Akufo-Addo government’s latest intervention in public education after the implementation of the Free Senior High School policy which started in with the 2017/2018 academic year SHS entrants. The BECE is required for both the certification and

West African Examinations Council (WAEC) The West African Examination Council (WAEC) is set to commence its new diet examination for private candidates in January 2018. Head of Nigeria National Office (HNO), Mr Olu Adenipekun who disclosed this to reporters at the council’s testing and training centre in Ogba, Lagos said the new diet is to address the growing concern among stakeholders over alleged discrimination against private candidates by the examination body. With the January-February diet, WAEC would conduct three examinations yearly. The other two are the May-June WASSCE and November-December for school and private candidates respectively. The approved subjects are: Commerce, Financial Accounting, Christian Religious Studies, Economics, Geography, Government, Islamic Studies, Literature in English, English language, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Further Mathematics, General Mathematics, Agricultural Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Civic Education. Already, registrat

WASSCE candidates need confidence, not fear   24 November 2017 School administrators, teachers and even parents seem to be instilling fears rather than confidence in 12th graders across the country, who are candidates for the newly introduced West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations or WASSCE in Liberia. Most school administrators, teachers and parents believe the nation’s education system is not prepared to administer such rigorous and internationally standardized tests. They cite among others, lack of basic facilities in schools, including well- equipped science laboratories, standard textbooks, and qualified teachers to comprehensively prepare 12th graders for the regional examinations, arguing that it’s not yet time to put our students on par with their colleagues in Nigeria, Ghana, The Gambia and Sierra Leone. But when will we be prepared as a nation in this 21st century after 170 years of Independence to prepare our youth coning out of secondary school so that

WAEC-Liberia Provides Clarity on Liberia’s Migration to WASSCE READING MODE aA aA SHARE THIS Monrovia  – The West African Examination Council (WAEC) Liberia said quarrels over fees charged for the 2018 West African Senior School Certificate Examination is due to parents’ lack of shouldering the responsibility of paying said fee over the years. Report by Willie N. Tokpah -  willie.tokpah@frontpageafricaonline.com    WAEC-Liberia boss Dale G. Gbotoe told a local radio outside Monrovia Wednesday that the fee is being perceived by parents as exorbitant because government had been undertaking the task of paying examination fees for both 12 and 9th graders in public schools. “Because the government was paying for all the candidates that sat the exam in time past, parents were not shouldering that responsibility,” Gbotoe stated. Parents of students from several senior and junior high public schools have raised serious concerns over what they conside

WASSCE: 1,873 Private candidates’ results withheld for alleged cheating November 24, 2017 The WAEC office Complex The West African Examination Council (WAEC), has released the provisional results of 117,306 candidates who sat for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for 2017 private candidates. The results of 1,873 candidates, alleged to have been involved in various examination malpractices, have been withheld pending the conclusion of investigations into the cases. This was in a statement signed by Reverend Victor Brew, the acting Director, on behalf of the Head of the National Office of WAEC, and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Thursday. It said the withheld results would be released as soon as the Council concludes its investigations. The statement said candidates may access their results online at www.waecgh.org. It alerted members of the public to be wary of the activities of fraudsters who would contact candidates with the pr