WAEC RAISES ALARM!!!

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The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, says it has received information suggesting that Heads of some of the second cycle schools taking part in this year’s West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examination, WASSCE, are taking monies from their students with the assurance of aiding them to write the examination. 

The Kumasi Controller of WAEC, Alex Boapem Bosompem, disclosed this to Ashanti Today in Kumasi. 

Mr. Bosompem noted that the school heads concerned are 'charging between one hundred and two hundred Ghana Cedis each' from the WASSCE candidates so as to facilitate the candidates’ access to external help. 

The WAEC Zonal Controller warned that any candidate, parent or headmaster who indulges in such act will be undertaking an unlawful adventure which has serious legal ramifications for them. 

Mr. Bosompem stressed that WAEC takes a serious exception to any form of examination compromises and that the sanctions could be dire for the perpetrators.

 He mentioned for instance that, some Invigilators and Supervisors caught during last year’s WASSCE have been blacklisted by the examinations management body while candidates who have been found to have engaged in unauthorized examination practices over the years have had their results either cancelled or banned for a specified number of years from taking part in any WAEC organized examination.


 Some schools have also lost their accreditation as WAEC approved exam centres thereby compelling its candidates to travel long distances to sit for the exam under very strict conditions.

Mr. Bosompem therefore advised parents, candidates and school heads to desist from any tendency unacceptable during the examination and rather contribute to an incident-free and credible exam.

  

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