The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has obtained a pat on the again for the deliberate migration of its Senior Faculty Certificates Examination (WASSCE) from the “Paper Pencil Check” to Laptop Primarily based Check (CBT) mode.
The commendation was contained in
an announcement by the President,
Isoko Nationwide Youth Meeting (INYA) Worldwide, Comrade Eniwake Orogun including that the choice of the examination physique aligned completely with international greatest practices.
In line with him, the necessity to undertake know-how in engineering pace and effectivity in addition to driving transparency and credibility particularly within the academic sector.
“As of at the moment, all ranges of our academic sector are in dire want of 1 type of reform or one other and the adoption of know-how for environment friendly and enhanced service supply is most welcomed.
“WAEC as a physique has a significant accountability to cope with problems with credibility which have challenged the authenticity of a number of the outcomes from some a part of the nation they’ve launched in latest occasions and the adoption of know-how to revive confidence and belief of Nigerians of their course of is most welcomed”.
Mr. Orogun puzzled why anybody together with the Arewa Youth Consultative Discussion board would kick towards an initiative as laudable as this in any guise.
“We’re baffled that as an alternative of wholeheartedly embracing this modern pondering like each different Nigerians, the Arewa Youth Consultative Discussion board is wiping up unsubstantiated sentiments that try and affiliate mass failure with CBT mode of conducting exams. Why ought to anybody be afraid of credibility? Or why ought to a number of states try and decelerate the wheel of nationwide progress? CBT mode of conducting exams will not be novel in Nigeria. Its deployment is in actual fact, lengthy overdue on the WASSCE degree as CBT has been successfully deployed to conduct JAMB UTME and ICAN exams.
If laptop expertise usually are not taught in public faculties in some states within the North as they’ve alleged, the correct factor to do is to name on the federal government of these states to create the enabling setting for its supply, relatively than reject this laudable initiative.
We all know that our college students are very studious and any mode of conducting the examination won’t have an effect on their efficiency besides for many who wish to get outcomes by way of the again door”.
They subsequently known as on related stakeholders to take care of the momentum and proceed with the plan of integrating CBT mode into their examination course of from February this 12 months as they’ve proposed.