Tight invigilation measures for 2015 WASSCE

The Ministry of Education has confirmed that a new arrangement to rotate invigilators will be implemented for the 2015 West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE).

The Examinations began on Monday, March 30 with 268,771 students registered as candidates.

Last year’s examinations recorded the highest number of infringements of 3 per cent.

In an effort to reduce the level of malpractices, government has introduced a number of measures.

“We are swapping supervisors for school candidates,” Minister of Education Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang told Parliament last week.

“No school, henceforth, will have supervisors from the compound. A supervisor is appointed from a different school to oversee an examination in a particular school.”

Prof Opoku Agyemang expressed the confidence that intensification of this measure will enable the Ministry “to catch more offenders than we have been able to do in the past.”

In his tour of some schools in the Greater Accra Region on the first day of the exams, a Deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, confirmed that: “We have carried out the agreement to move invigilators round to make invigilation quite unpredictable.

“We have also improved on security from when the examination papers were printed to where they are stored.”

The first core subject taken on Monday was Integrated Science.

The examinations are scheduled to end on May 14.