WAEC-Liberia Provides Clarity on Liberia’s Migration to WASSCE

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WAEC-Liberia Provides Clarity on Liberia’s Migration to WASSCE

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 considered as hike in WASSCE fees by WAEC
But Gbotoe said the fees being charged for this academic year’s WASSCE examination is lesser than what was being charged over the past four years and there was no need for complaining.
According to him, since 2013, fees charged by the council for WASSCE has remained US$75 and had been administered as a pilot project but the 2018 fee is now reduced to US$60.
“The WASSCE fees over the years had been US$75; we have been giving this exam since 2013.  It was given on a pilot basis. We used to indicate the fees,” Gbotoe said.
He said the pilot project should have ended since 2015 but due to Liberia's health crisis, it was extended up to 2017 academic school year.
“During this period,” Gbotoe noted, “schools participating in the pilot project took WAEC and WASSCE simultaneously without any complaint due to government involvement of paying the fees.”
He maintained that both fees for WAEC and WASSCE were indicated by the examination Council but parents were not aware because government was shouldering the responsibility of paying the fees.
Gbotoe, however, registered that the issue of WASSCE was long announced by government to be held in 2018 as a full-scale examination, leaving out WAEC.
He does not want WAEC be blamed for the current fee charged, noting that the decision of levying fees came from WAEC Board instead of the institution secretariat.
According to him, WAEC Secretariat proposed US$65 to the board as fee for the WASSCE Examination but said fee was reduced by US$5 by the WAEC Board.
“We had a meeting in May this year and the issue relating to the fees was presented to the board. We did a financial analysis as a breakdown, and initially we were proposing that the fees should be US$65 but the board in its own wisdom taught to reduce it to US$60,” Gbotoe asserted.
He furthered that the decision to levy fees for WASSCE Examination met the approval of several stakeholders in the educational sector of Liberia including Monrovia Consolidated School System Superintendent, Benjamin Adolphus Jacobs and was not a decision from WAEC Secretariat alone.
Gbotoe furthered: “We at the secretariat don’t have that right to make exclusive decision on fees; it’s our board that levied fees. There are stakeholders represented on the board, chaired by Deputy Education Minister for Instruction, along with representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Civil Service Agency, Ministry of Labor, Educational Secretariat, the Principal Association, National Teachers Association and several other stakeholders.”
According to him, fees charged are in line with huge costs attached to running the exam, which has been divided into three stages.
The WAEC head indicated that the exam is international and the costs for developing the test, transporting materials and administering it as well as costs of printing certificates are exorbitant.
He further stated that WAEC is also concerned with extra high fees levy by some schools’ administrators for taking the exam above the regular fees charged by WAEC.
“Everything associated with WAEC, with the exception of printing and air flat, were done locally but with the WASSCE, panel have to meet from each country on questions relating to the test,” Gbotoe disclosed.
He believed students in Liberia are up to task for the WASSCE Examination, stating that Liberia educational system is up to standard, contrary to assertions of it being “messy.”

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