A statement from the West African Examination Council’s (WAEC’s) management body and signed by its Public Relations Officer (PRO), Agnes Teye Cudjoe read: ” the attention of the West African Examinations Council has been called to the very unfortunate circulation of a yet to be finalised version of an Examiners’ List for the WASSCE (SC) 2020 on social media. The Council has initiated investigations into this disturbing development and reported the matter to the Cyber Crime Department of the Ghana Police Service.”
According to the exam body, it is ‘unfortunate and disturbing’ for the list to find it way on social media.
WAEC has unreservedly apologized to all examiners whose contact details have inadvertently been made public.
The Council says processes such as the exclusion of school names on script envelopes, swapping of scripts across regions, vetting of scripts marked by assistant examiners by team leaders, vetting of team leaders’ scripts by Chief Examiners and supervision of the same by venue co-ordinator and subject officers have over the years been tested have ensured fairness.
It, therefore, assures its stakeholders and members of the public that its marking process will not be compromised.
“Council wishes to reiterate its commitment to safeguarding the integrity and credibility of its examinations and certificates respectively”, WAEC said.
On the leakage of examination questions, it has admitted snapshots of the Mathematics (Core) 2 paper were posted on social media platforms.
But it says this happened after the release of the paper from its strong rooms.
Meanwhile, the “Council will continue to roll out various measures to deal with these illegal activities in order to ensure fairness to all candidates and maintain the integrity of the examination”, the statement added.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
