{"id":86157,"date":"2021-09-20T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=86157"},"modified":"2021-09-20T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T20:49:00","slug":"fg-to-reconsider-south-east-candidates-who-missed-2021-wassce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/fg-to-reconsider-south-east-candidates-who-missed-2021-wassce\/","title":{"rendered":"FG to reconsider South East candidates who missed 2021 WASSCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1711446079267746879\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Education has assured that candidates who missed the 2021 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in the South East, will be given another opportunity to write the examination.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nMr Sonny Echono, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, made this known while monitoring some examination centres in Abuja on Monday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Echono frowned at the Sept. 13 disruption of examination centres in the South East.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He, however, expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the examination across the country which was written by over 1.57 million candidates.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to Echono, the ministry will put modalities in place to ensure that the candidates who missed the examination in the South East are given other opportunities to write the examination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased that all around the country; examinations are going on peacefully as we have a total of over 19,000 exams centres across the country with over 1.57million registered candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides the disruptions we had on Sept.13 in the South East where some candidates were stopped from doing the exams, it is a peaceful examination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are complying with all the standards and ethics of examinations, we are pursuing very hard more cases, incidence or possibilities of examinations malpractice because we have a zero tolerance for examinations malpractice.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cWe shall punish any person found culpable and ensure that sanity is restored in our system,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Echono further said that the ministry did not encounter challenges in preparing students for the examinations aside from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll COVID-19 safety protocols are being strictly adhered to in centres across the country,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said that although some schools were closed in states due to COVID-19 pandemic, alternative arrangements were made especially for exit classes to take the examination.<\/p>\n<p>On the possibilities of examination malpractices, Echono said that cases of examination malpractices were usually collated at the end of the examination, pointing out that the culprits would also be brought to book.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHe said that the ministry was collaborating with relevant examination bodies and Non Government Organisations to fish out candidates involved in examination malpractices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because we have a lot of miscreant who are perpetrating and deceiving people. We are going to undertake a general overhaul for all those offering so called services to candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t see much of malpractices in internal examinations like this because these are students who are already in school,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education has assured that candidates who missed the 2021 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in the South East, will be given another opportunity to write&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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