WAEC’s lack of innovative ideas the reasons for exam leakages – GES former Director
Incessant occurrence of leakages in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) papers have been blamed on the lack of innovative regulatory ideas on the part of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), according to former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service Charles Aheto-Tsegah.
This issue is coming on the back of findings Africa Education Watch’s WASSCE 2021 monitoring revealed. For Mr Aheto-Tsegah, if the required systems had been put in place this phenomenon wouldn’t have worsened.
“What we have today is the worst form of what we have been having. Now what we have is institutionalized examination malpractice,” he bemoaned.
He also recommended that using CCTV cameras was an option the West African Examinations Council had not utilized.
“The whole issue of CCTVs in secondary schools had been discussed in WAEC meetings,” he said.
Mr Aheto-Tsegah even said this is a suggestion he had made to his alma mater.
“I know that I have made an appeal to our old students so that we should begin to introduce CCTV cameras in our examination halls in my school, Winneba Secondary School, just so we can redeem ourselves from this whole menace of examination malpractice.”
Africa Education Watch report indicated that it has unravelled an exam leaks syndicate that includes teachers, students, and security personnel.
The report points out the fact that out of the 20 WASSCE papers sampled for their monitoring, 55 per cent of the said papers leaked within 10 hours to the start of the exam, with one practical paper leaking five days earlier.
Africa Education Watch had initially petitioned the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over this incidence of Examination collusion of malpractices.
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
