The six South-West states have indicated their readiness to allow their pupils to participate in the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination despite the Federal Government’s position that Nigeria would not be participating in the regional examination. The state governments have also said their pupils would sit for the exam.
The state governments namely Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo and Osun states took the decision after a virtual meeting on Tuesday. The meeting was initiated by the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, also known as DAWN Commission in collaboration with the forum of South West commissioners for education, special advisers on education and the state Universal Basic Education Board chairmen.
Recall that the Federal Government had earlier reversed its earlier decision to reopen schools for pupils in terminal classes to enable them to sit for their external examinations including WASSCE organised by the West African Examination Council.
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But in a statement on Wednesday, the Director-General of the DAWN Commission, Seye Oyeleye, said, “The Forum, after careful deliberations, considering peculiarities of each state and options available reached a consensus on the subject matters thus: On WAEC examinations; State Commissioners for Education have signified readiness to sit students for the 2019/2020 WAEC examinations.
“At the least, August 3rd, resumption for final year SSS3 students, states should approach the Federal Government at the first instance seeking the postponement of the WAEC exam by at least three weeks from proposed resumption. At the second instance states should directly approach WAEC to seek for an extension of the WAEC Examinations to August 24.
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“All schools, when reopening should have in place incident managers and classroom wardens for every classroom. They should also have designation of the Quality Assurance Department for each state to issue a Safety Compliance Certificate to each school before reopening.”
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The state governments also urged WAEC to encourage the use of Computer-Based Tests while each state should deliberately intensify efforts and invest more in education technology.
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