WAEC hint punishment for SHS caught using projector in WASSCE
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says the Senior High School caught using a projector to project answers to the West African Senior School Certificate Examination questions for its candidates will be recognised as a WASSCE centre.
“There is something we call derecognition, so the school will be recognised for some 3 years and within those 3 years they will write at another centre while we take a look at your structures again,” a spokesperson for WAEC said.
Asked which second cycle school the projector was discovered, the Head of Public Relations, John Kapi citing examination best practices said his outfit after the marking of the WASSCE papers would make further details known to the public.
Commenting on the incident in Odorgonno Senior High School where some candidates physically assaulted a teacher who doubled as an invigilator for the examination, the spokesman said the results of such students will be cancelled.
“At Odorgonno Senior High School for example some students after they had finished with their last paper of the WASSCE for School ran to a teacher and beat him up for strict invigilation. They could probably go without any results,” he said.
Relatedly, the not-for-profit-making organization (WAEC) ahead of the 2024 WASSCE for School threatened to derecognise SDA Senior High School, Kenyasi as a centre for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination.
The Head of Public Affairs of WAEC, Mr Joh Kapi speaking to Daily Graphic said the move was to halt the illegal registration of candidates and to a large extent limit examination malpractice in the education sector.
His comment comes after his outfit and the security agency arrested two individuals at Swedru in the Central Region for registering unqualified candidates to sit for the 2024 WASSCE for School at the SDA Senior High School
He explained to Graphic that a combined team of the Intelligence Unit of the National Security and the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) security picked the suspects up while they were attempting to register the candidates.
The victims Robert Hackman, a private teacher residing at Agona Swedru and a part-time teacher in Kenyasi SDA Senior High School and Kwabena Baah Achemfour he said are helping the Swedru District Police Headquarters in the investigation.
The West African Examinations Council official said Hackman had mobilised unqualified students mostly from Accra, Takoradi, Agona Swedru, Cape Coast and others from Dunkwa-On-Offin to register them for the 2024 WASSCE
Through social media, kapi said Hackman was alleged to have mobilised out-of-school individuals who once sat for the WASSCE but could not make the grades or had their papers cancelled to re-register for the WASSCE for School.
With his accomplice, he said They were able to carry out their activities with a biometric device with the number AY00T004145 with the login code 93868278 and a Lenovo laptop as well as a green lady’s school uniform and a white boy’s shirt.
The Public Relations Officer for the not-for-profit-making organization (WAEC) said investigations also revealed that the login code as well as the uniform used for the registration belonged to SDA Senior High School (SHS), Kenyasi.
The WAEC spokesman briefing Graphic on the development said on March 26, 2024, Hackman arranged with the headmistress of Adishie Mma Preparatory School at Swedru to use the ICT laboratory of the school as a registration centre.
“At about 8 a.m., Hackman and Achemfour commenced the illegal registration of those unqualified persons, however, in the process, they were apprehended by the team and sent to the Swedru District Police Headquarters for investigations,” Mr Kapi told the Daily Graphic.