WAEC to start computerized roll-out of certificates

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) stated that it has concluded plans to make its certificates obtainable to candidates of the West African Senior College Certificates Examination (WASSCE) instantly after their outcomes are launched. 

The transfer is coming just a few days after the examination physique introduced plans to launch a digital certificates platform. 

WAEC’s Head of Nationwide Workplace, Patrick Areghan, disclosed this on Tuesday at a luncheon organised by the examination physique in Lagos.

He famous that the digital certificates platform could be launched on Thursday, October 20, 2022, including that the method would initially apply to those that wrote the exams between 1999 and until date. Candidates who sat for his or her exams throughout the previous years could be thought-about a lot later. 

What the WAEC Head of Nationwide Workplace is saying 

Areghan additionally disclosed that the brand new digital certificates can’t be tampered with or falsified. And this might assist to ship fakers out of the market. He stated:

“Whether or not your certificates was burnt or misplaced to flood or eaten by termite, you don’t need to undergo the stress of recovering it. Simply choose up your telephone and go surfing to our web site and it comes straight from the WAEC database. 

“We have now solved the issue of theft. We have now saved you the headache of carrying the laborious copies of your certificates. And the nice factor that can come out of that is, by the point we take a remaining choice and ideal every thing if we launch the outcomes right now, I can inform you that the certificates are prepared. It’s simply to roll them out.  

‘’If we announce the discharge of outcomes right now, the certificates will routinely be prepared for launch. It might simply take a 12 months to transit as a result of the certificates we now have now are going to be handled, however instantly after they’re handled, they are going to be obtainable within the database. The subsequent one, that will probably be 2023 or 2024, instantly we launch the outcomes the certificates will probably be prepared.” 

Insecurity is a serious problem in conducting examinations 

Talking additional, the WAEC boss listed insecurity as one of many challenges the examination physique was going through in conducting exams throughout the nation. He stated:

“Locations the place you go to by street, you now need to fly due to insecurity. Virtually everyone in WAEC now flies. We’re the best movers of leg and supplies. We keep in resorts. And you already know for safety causes you’ll be able to not keep in anyhow resort. You need to keep in a secure space. There are some locations you can’t conduct exams with out the bodily presence of the police and the Nigerian Military. 

“While you go to the East attributable to what I’ll name ethnic separatism; you go to the north the place you may have banditry and insurgency; how do you conduct exams in these areas? Thank God some state governments cooperate with us. If not for the navy and the brigade command in Yobe and Borno States, we might not have been in a position to conduct the examination. Within the East, we thank the DSS. And customarily, all around the nation, we thank the Inspector-Normal of Police.  

“We take the examination to each nook and cranny of the nation. Our examination will not be such that you simply collect folks collectively in a single central location. There isn’t any facility like that in Nigeria. Wherever the varsity is situated, you need to go there to conduct the examination. That could be a nice problem. Even in some locations the place you don’t have banditry, gunmen or insurgency, the roads aren’t good. These are the challenges we now have in making an attempt to serve the Nigerian baby.” 

What you need to know 

WAEC described the initiative as a cellular and web-based software that has highly effective options. It was designed to assist candidates, people, and establishments/organizations entry, share, request, affirm certificates and get better forgotten WAEC candidates’ examination numbers. 

The WAEC Digital Certificates Platform is on the market on-line by way of www.waec.org. The cellular software could be downloaded on Android and iOS app shops. 

For extra data, stakeholders can go to WAEC’s web site. 

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