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Punch Newspapers Sections Sodiq Oyeleke The West African Examinations Council has released the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for private candidates (second series). Announcing the release of the results on Monday, the council said 39.82 per cent made credits in five subjects, including Mathematics and English. The Head of the National Office, Patrick Areghan, also announced the opening of registration for the 2021 WASSCE for school candidates. According to Areghan, the newly-released result is an improvement in performance in the examination in the last two years. He...

Results of 5,548 candidates who participated at the 2020 Second Series of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates have been withheld over various cases of malpractice.

WAEC withholds 5,548 results, says females did better than males as it releases Nov/Dec 2020 results WAEC withholds 5,548 results, says females did better than males as it releases Nov/Dec 2020 results Share The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), on Monday, in Lagos, released the results of the 2020 November/December West African Senior School Certificate Examinations(WASSCE), for private candidates (second series). A total of 61,509 candidates sat for the examination at 540 designated centres nationwide, out of which 24,491 (representing 39.82%) obtained credits and above in at least...

The West African Examinations Council has announced the results of the 2020 second series West African Senior School Certificate Examination

2020 witnessed an unprecedented closure of most sectors of the economy; education being the worst hit with the prolonged strike by academic staff union of public universities and delayed reopening of schools after the lockdown. In this report, Uchechukwu Nnaike and Funmi Ogundare recount activities that shaped the outgoing year 2020 can best be described as a year of uncertainty and struggle in the education sector. While the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic was not envisaged, the indefinite strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was inevitable, following series ...