Wow!:Ghanaian candidates’ results best in past 3 yrs —WAEC

Firstclass newsline gathered that the West African Examination Council
(WAEC), said candidates from Ghana had produced best results in West
African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), in the past
three years.
WAEC's Head of national office in Nigeria, Mr Charles Eguridu,
disclosed this at a dinner with newsmen on Wednesday, in Abuja.
Eguridu said that Nigeria, by its population, should be the best in
the examination but lamented that stakeholders in the country were not
taking education of their wards seriously.
"Over the past three years, candidates from Ghana have remained the
best; it is saddening considering our population.
"We have been paying lip service to teachers; some schools do not have
facilities; candidates do not have laboratories, vocational centres,
libraries and textbooks.
"The outcome of such educational system will be self-evident; it is
high time we got more serious with our value system and adopt
excellence as our watchword.
"It is not that Nigerians are less intelligent but we do not motivate
our children; the love and quest for material things has taken over
the level of responsibility in many homes,'' he said.
According to him, children are not monitored at home as they are left
to watch movies and do other things at the detriment of their
studies.7
On the perceived credibility issue between WAEC and the National
Examination Council (NECO) results in terms of students' performances,
Eguridu said that the council's researchers would look into the
matter.
"We do not set the questions; we use teachers from the school system
in the country.
"They also do the marking; we just coordinate and facilitate it,'' he said.
"We must continue to maintain standard; we do not adjust to make people happy.
"We want our results to reflect the quality of teaching, skills and
competence in our schools.
"If some others appear to be doing very well, that is something we
have to research into,'' he added.
Eguridu disclosed that from 2016, WAEC's November/December General
Certificate in Education (GCE) examination would be known as ''Private
Candidates'' examination while that of May/June would be "School
Candidates'' examination.
He explained that the change in name was to avoid tying the
examinations to specific months.
On the debts being owed the council by some states, he said that 30
per cent of the states had paid while some others issued promissory
notes
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