WAEC trains education stakeholders on Computer Based Examinations

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) successful Anambra, has stated that close campaigner registration remains the instauration for a palmy Computer-Based Examinations (CBE), The Track News has reported

Mr Tunde Ajibade, WAEC Branch Controller, made the assertion successful Awka, astatine a strategical gathering with the Ministry of Education and cardinal acquisition stakeholders.

The meeting, according to The Track News, centred connected preparations for the Federal Government’s planned CBE, aimed to make strategies for the palmy behaviour of the 2025/2026 examinations.

The gathering had schoolhouse principals, teachers, backstage schoolhouse owners, designated cyber café operators and different acquisition leaders successful attendance.

According to The Track News, Ajibade warned that errors astatine the registration signifier could person semipermanent consequences, including nonaccomplishment of admittance opportunities.

“With the planned adoption of CBE, registration officials indispensable beryllium thorough.

“Thorough successful capturing candidates’ faces, since introduction into the introspection hallway volition necessitate look verification.

“An mistake specified arsenic uploading the incorrect representation renders a campaigner ineligible. A palmy introspection starts with due registration.

“Errors astatine this signifier tin disrupt a candidate’s future. While immoderate mistakes tin beryllium corrected, others cannot,” helium said.

The Track News noted that Ajibade besides expressed interest implicit the rising fig of amendment cases owed to registration errors.

He emphasised the request for due grooming and sensitisation of registration officers.

On introspection centres for CBE, Ajibade explained that schools with facilities gathering WAEC accreditation requirements would service arsenic centres.

According to him, schools without capable infrastructure volition beryllium merged with adjacent accredited schools.

Reacting connected candidates with peculiar needs, Anambra Head of Examinations, WAEC, Mr Olanrewaju Fadehan, told The Track News that schools should spell beyond ticking a disablement file during registration.

He explained that schools were required to acquisition and implicit a proforma signifier to guarantee candidates with disabilities received due accommodations during examinations.

“Schools indispensable notify WAEC successful beforehand to let due preparation,” helium said.

In her remarks, Anambra Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, commended WAEC for engaging stakeholders up of the examinations.

Chuma-Udeh described the engagement arsenic a proactive measurement toward credible and transparent assessments.

She reaffirmed the authorities government’s committedness to supporting introspection processes that heighten prime education.

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