The West African
Examinations Council (WAEC) has banned two secondary schools in Imo State for
engaging in examination malpractices.
With this, the
schools are barred from registering as an examination centre or presenting
their pupils as candidates in any of its examinations for a period of five
years.
The Head, Public
Affairs of the council, Mr. Demianus Ojijeogu, who made this disclosure in a
chat with The Punch on Thursday, added that 28 other schools across the country
have been derecognised for two years for engaging in the same act.
Ojijeogu, while
refusing to name the affected schools, revealed that one of its supervisors was
assaulted in one of the schools in Imo, with some of its officials “locked out
for more than 30 minutes in the second school obviously to perpetrate
examination malpractice.’’
He said, “We don’t
usually name the schools because we refer to them by their centre numbers. For
the derecognised schools, examination can still hold in the school but we will
not use their teachers as invigilator.
There are 28 of those schools across the country and they can still
reapply after two years, telling us what they have put in place to prevent a
recurrence of examination malpractice.”
Speaking on the
difference between derecognising a school and withdrawing the recognition given
to a school, Ojijeogu said the one which had been derecognised by the council
could still be used as an examination centre but without the participation of
its teachers as invigilators.
While a school whose
recognition had been withdrawn could no longer be used as a centre nor have its
teachers participate as invigilators for a period of five years.
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