Leak WASSCE exam papers solvable; let’s work together – EduWatch to stakeholders

The Africa Education Watch (EduWatch) is calling for an all-hands-on-deck approach to make the leak of WASSCE examination papers a thing of the past.

Over the years, EduWatch has been pushing for more to be done to ensure WASSCE papers are not leaked whenever final year students of Senior High Schools sit for the exams.

Unfortunately, the same issue was recorded recently when SHS final year students sat for the 2021 WASSCE.

According to a report by EduWatch, 55% of papers were leaked while 45% of the papers were not leaked.

Troubled by the discovery, Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Mr. Kofi Asare has noted that all stakeholders must come together to deal with the issue.

“There is the need to move away from continuously denying the obvious to the point of having the collective resolve on the actions to take to sustainably have a reform of the entire assessment system,” he said in an interview with Citi FM on Thursday.

According to him, leakage of examination papers has continued due to the inaction of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC).

Mr. Asare is of the view that the council in time past has lacked the zeal to deal with the issue because it did not want to compromise its image by admitting to the reality.

“It is as a result of years and years of inaction on the subject matter that is quite tricky. Anytime WAEC has to resolve the matter it looks as if the urge to cover up for its image rather than try to solve it by exposing to all stakeholders the reality on the ground keeps pushing an urgent and honest resolution for the matter.

“This has cascaded to what we see today,” the EduWatch director noted.

The Kofi Asare continued, “The scenario is not a pleasant one but it is not insolvable, it is not incurable and that is why I am happy that we have the political will of the Ministry of Education. Having the conversation about the challenge I believe is the first step to confronting the situation head-on.”

Africa Education Watch says it is not going to relent but will continue to push for more engagements to ensure there is the needed change in the system to avoid leak of examination papers.