WAEC get funds to pay BECE invigilators, supervisors & examiners

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it has received adequate funds to pay invigilators and supervisors who were tasked to oversee this academic year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School and Private.

In an interview monitored by Pretertiary.com, the Head of Public Affairs for the not-for-profit organization (WAEC) said examiners will also be paid after making the scripts of prospective candidates who sat for the national examination.

“We have the financial support so we are going to be able to pay all our examiners and as I speak plans are far advanced to pay invigilators and supervisors for BECE. And also we have money to pay our examiners when they finish marking the BECE,” he said.

Explaining the BECE marking process, Kapi said “What we are going to do is invite examiners from across the country for national preliminary coordination where they come and sit down as experts and relook at the marking scheme.”

After various examiners’ meetings, the spokesman for the not-for-profit-making organization said the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) scripts will be swapped across the country for the marking to commence.

Describing the October BECE for School and Private results release date as tentative, the West African Examinations Council spokesperson said the management of his outfit is working tirelessly to meet the October deadline.

“Marking of the BECE scripts is ongoing and tentatively we are looking at the first weekend of October normally we give ourselves a grace period of 7 days so by the middle of October the 2024 BECE results should be out,” he stated.

A total of 569,095 candidates representing 282,648 males and 286,447 females from 19,506 private and public Junior High Schools participated in the BECE for School which commenced on Monday, July 8, and ended on Monday, July 15, 2024.

Regarding BECE for Private Candidates, about 1,366 candidates, comprising 735 males and 631 females participated in the examination. fifteen (15) centres, mainly in the regional capitals were used during the private examination.

The West African Examinations Council tasked 2,123 supervisors, 1,889 assistant supervisors and 19,973 invigilators to ensure the smooth conduct of the Basic Education Certificate Examination for School held in 2,123 centres nationwide.