The West African Examination Council’s (WAEC) withdrawal of papers owing to examination fraud has drawn criticism from Africa Education Watch’s executive director.
Mr Kofi Asare contends that rather than punishing students who engage in examination malpractice, the Exam Council ought to take proactive measures to avoid it.
He revealed this in an interview on JoyNews on Thursday.
Mr. Asare’s remarks come after WAEC cancelled a number of candidates’ exam results due to exam fraud during this year’s WASSCE exams.
In his words, “looking at the information issued by WAEC, we realized that there is an increase in the number of subjects that were cancelled relative to last year by almost 187 percent. So it has increased from from 1,300 last year to roughly 3,600 this year.
According to the data, the prevalence of exam fraud is growing, hence WAEC needs to be more aggressive in responding to such events as they happen.
The greatest method to stop examination malpractice, according to Mr. Asare, is to make sure it doesn’t happen in the first place rather than trying to fix it after it has already happened.
Even though Ghana performed better this year in the WASSCE exam, he pointed out that the country still has a long way to go.
For WASSCE applicants taking the 2022 exam, the West African Examination Council has announced preliminary results.
According to a statement released by WAEC on Thursday, the results only apply to students from Ghana who sat the examinations this year.
The exam body claims that candidates can view the results on its website.