West African Examination Council (WAEC) in Nigeria has announced that it would gradually eliminate the use of papers in its conduct of examinations.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Head of WAEC National Office, Amos Dangut made the announcement on Thursday after assesssing the conduct of the ongoing West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Abeokuta.
Dangut was accompanied by the WAEC Permanent Secretary, Ogun Ministry of Education, Mariam Oloko alongside other monitoring team during the assessment.
They visited Abeokuta Grammar School and Baptist Girls College in Idi-Aba, Sacred Heart College, Oke Ilewo, and Charis College, Oke Ata.
He noted that WAEC is planning to deploy electronic devices to various recognised examination centres across the country for the conduct of WASSCE in the future.
Dangut emphasized that the deployment of the devices would eliminate the current use of paper registration of candidates and detect all forms of malpractice in the centres.
He said, “We are saying that in the future, we are going to give this provision where schools that have facilities to do computer-based testing will take the examination on the computer where those that are not ready will do the pen and paper.”
” We will work in consultation with the Ministry of Education to have a timeline for this. When the time comes we shall roll it out.”
The National office boss further revealed that the assessment was satisfactory, saying the schools and the students had prepared well for the examination.
Dangut, however, noted that the schools need to have bigger laboratories that would cater to the students with sufficient equipment.
According to Dangut, over 1.8 million candidates are writing the examinations across the country.
Oloko, while speaking, noted that the present administration under Governor Dapo Abiodun has already commenced the process of online registration of pupils in both public and private schools in the state.
She assured continuous upgrading of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and other facilities in public schools to prepare teachers and students.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the monitoring team visited Abeokuta Grammar School and Baptist Girls College, both in Idi-Aba.
