The West African Examination Council(WAEC) has announced the release of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE)for schools, 2023 in Nigeria.
This announcement was made by the head of the Nigeria national office, Mr. Patrick E. Areghan at that WAEC national office in Yaba, Lagos on Monday August 7th, 2023.
Despite the challenges that the examination body has faced in recent times especially with management of timetables, synergizing with the other countries under the council to harmonize, internal financial crisis, insecurity in the country,non adherence to standards and deadlines by schools, rogue website operators, compromised supervisors and states who have been owing massively, the council has still been able to keep the standard by which it is known for and these factors have not reduced the quality and high ranking service.
Speaking further, Patrick E. Areghan, added that in line with the West African Examinations Council’s mandate for top notch service delivery, stakeholders have the access to key into a digital platform that will eliminate the stress and burden of undue waiting of results and checking results without delay.
These have come through the establishment of a functional WAEC Nigeria Digital Printing Press( WNDPP), the launch of the Digital Certificate platform (DigiCert), the launch of thr Educational Statistics platform (EDUSTAT), WAEC Chatbot, WAEC Verify, WAEC e-study Library, WAEC Testing and Training Center (WTTC) and the centre locator.
The innovations are all geared to ensuring that students, parents and other stakeholders can get the maximum productivity from WAEC while getting value added services. WAEC is poised to work with the changing times whilst ensuring that educational standards through proper regulation is maintained and this will be done in the most conducive and modern ways.