NEWS DIGEST– The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the results of the twenty-twenty-three Internal Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE), revealing that ninety-three schools were found to have engaged in examination malpractice. The announcement was made by the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Professor Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi.
According to the Wushishi Sixty-one point sixty percent of candidates scored five credits and above, including English and Mathematics. However, the revelation of ninety-three schools involved in whole-school cheating and the recommendation of fifty-two supervisors for blacklisting due to poor supervision, aiding, and abetting during the examinations was a cause for concern.
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Professor Wushishi disclosed that the erring schools would be invited to the Council for discussion, after which appropriate sanctions would be applied. He also stated that one thousand, five hundred and forty-three candidates with special needs sat for the examinations, and that one hundred and forty-nine candidates with low vision and one hundred and fifty-four candidates with Adermatoglyphia, which are candidates with no fingerprints, were included.
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He further explained that seven hundred and thirty-seven thousand, three hundred and eight representing sixty-one point sixty percent of candidates passed with five credits and above, while one million and thirteen thousand, six hundred and eleven representing eighty-four point sixty-eight percent of candidates had five credits irrespective of English and Mathematics.
Ultimately, the focus remained on the troubling issue of examination malpractice, with the hope that appropriate measures would be taken to curb and prevent its occurrence.
