The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has revealed that the three schools highlighted by the West Africa Examination Council in its press briefing held yesterday, November 5, 2021, as having taken part in the exams were not captured in the findings of the report but rather in its appendix.
According to him, schools such as Kikam Senior High School was captured because Eduwatch monitored NABPTEX exams as well since Kikam is a technical school. Mr Asare explained that his outfit will be a lot more cautious in its final publication of the report as he will correct all errors made in that regard.
“We did not cite those schools in any of the findings of the report. We will take note of the final publishing of the mass report. We are going to monitor the typo in the appendix. We are yet to print mass copies of the report. When we print it, we will factor that in”.
Mr Kofi Asare
The Public Relations Officer of the WAEC, Mrs. Agnes Teye-Cudjoe at the press briefing disclosed that three schools cited in the report as having been involved in examination malpractices did not participate in the WASSCE exams.
The schools are; Insaaniyaa Senior High School, Beposoman Muslims Senior High School, and Kikam Senior High School.
In reaction to claims by the Council in its address to the media that the Chemistry Paper 1 did not leak, Mr. Asare insisted that he has“evidence that Chemistry leaked”, although WAEC will also insist it “did not leak”.
“If you read our report, it is clear that we admitted that the paper leaked before they started”.
Mr Kofi Asare
Mr Asare noted that the findings have been submitted to various stakeholders. As such, if WAEC has issues with the “technical aspect” of the research, his outfit is happy to “discuss and respond”.
Justifying the report churned out by the education think tank, Mr Asare intimated that they expect some of these “trivial responses from WAEC”, because WAEC won’t take pleasure in the fact that “we are impugning their integrity”.
“They won’t be happy that we are announcing leaks… We have the evidence, we submitted to Parliament, WAEC was there, GES leadership was there, the Minister was there, head teachers were there, we submitted the same evidence to the Ghana Police, if WAEC says it didn’t leak, we leave it to WAEC”.
Mr Kofi Asare
Our target is not WAEC
The Executive Director of EduWatch emphasized that its primary reason for monitoring WASSCE examinations was to engage the Ministry of Education and offer reforms to strengthen the examination question value chain. Mr Asare explained that his “target is not WAEC” because cannot WAEC “reform the system”.
“It is never our objective to engage WAEC to reform itself. Our only objective is to gather evidence, make recommendations and engage the Ministry of Education, the only agency that has the mandate to initiate the reforms that will lead to strengthen the security system of the question value chain, not of WAEC alone, but also NABPTEX and other examining bodies whose questions are being sold in the open market”.
Mr Kofi Asare
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