In line with scandals characterized by the Educationist Daniel Fenyi has opined that the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) should be rendered irrelevant and students are made to write entrance examinations.
His comments come on the back of leaked Integrated science, core mathematics and Chemistry practical examination papers.
A list containing the names, school, address and emails of examiners also found its way to social media.
Speaking on Radio Univers today, Daniel Fenyi argued that even though the credibility of the examination body is questionable, the examination should not be cancelled.
He added the certificate should be rendered baseless.
“The credibility of WAEC is nothing to write home about. If you cancel the exam it will still be WAEC who’ll conduct the next exam. Let’s leave them, let’s make the certificate irrelevant. Let it not matter to the next level of the students. I tell you when we do that the students themselves will no longer be strongly be looking for any form of ‘apor’,” he said.
Mr. Fenyi further accused the body of being corrupt and called for the introduction of entrance examinations into the university.
“WAEC is corrupt, WAEC cannot be trusted, WAEC has not held any single exam with integrity in this country. For me, our examinations should move outside WAEC. I push for the entrance examinations”.
He also said that the malpractice this year can be attributed to politicization of examination results.
“2020 is election year and so the results must be the best so that somebody’s manifesto will be nice. When WASSCE results become campaign messages these are the things you see”.
Meanwhile, the President of the National Union of Ghana Students is calling for an independent body to be set up to monitor the ongoing examinations.
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