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2020 WASSCE: FG considers GCE as alternative

by John Victor
July 24, 2020
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The Federal Government announced that final year secondary school students may have to sit for the General Certificate of Education (GCE) in November if there is no shift in the timetable of the West African Examination Council (WAEC).

The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, revealed while attending to questions at the 52nd joint national briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja.

He said that the government would meet with stakeholders again on July 30, to review the guidelines, provisions and preparations for safe reopening of schools.

WAEC

According to him, sitting for the GCE may become the only option for Nigerian students if the country cannot convince WAEC to shift its examinations as requested for by the Federal Government.

“Should Nigeria be able to meet up with the WAEC timetable, there is already a negotiated timeline to move local language subjects such as Ibo, Yoruba and Hausa behind to allow all participating countries the needed time to write the general subjects at the same time.

“WAEC, unfortunately, is unable to wholesomely move the examination but we have also worked out a negotiated timeline with WAEC on what we call peculiar Nigerian subjects which in the language of WAEC are subjects that are only held in Nigeria such as Ibo, Hausa and Yoruba.

“The Ghanaians will take examinations peculiar to them. But they are all in the first part of the time table. So, we will work out a domestication module that will take our peculiar subjects behind after we have done general subjects.”

On the cancellation of third term by Oyo State Government, the minister said that states are free to make some decisions on their own.

“Education is on the concurrent list and while the states are expected to work together on common front, especially on the COVID-19 crisis, they are at liberty to evolve some measures on their own,” he said.

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