Education Think Tank, Institute for Education Studies (IFEST), has urged the West Africa Examination Council to go beyond reporting invigilators engaged in exam malpractices to the National Teaching Council (NTC) for further punishment.

At least 18 teachers and invigilators were arrested in the just-ended Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for various infractions and handed over to the Police.

Speaking to Starr News, the Executive Director for the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST), Dr. Peter Partey-Anti urged the West Africa Examination Council to go the extra mile to make malpractice incidents unattractive.

“It has been a successful exercise this year with minimal incidents. It is not advisable for any teacher to engage himself in this exercise and in that direction because you are supposed to prepare the candidate for the exams. You must allow the candidate to work with his capability and ability to be able to know where his performance is and that is what we wish that every teacher will do. Unfortunately, we didn’t get that and some teachers found themselves in that light.”

“I have said that apart from the investigation and other things that WAEC is doing, WAEC should officially report these teachers to the National Teaching Council for them also to take actions on this behaviour which constitutes unprofessional misconduct,” he added.

A total of 569,095 Candidates wrote this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) at 2,123 designated Centers across the country.