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WAEC Launches Educational Statistics Platform

L-R: The Head of National Office of WAEC in Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Areghan unveiling the logo of the WAEC Educational Statistics Platform, while Mrs. Moyosola Adesina, the Acting Head, Public Affairs of the Council is assisting the unveiling of the logo at the Launch in WAEC office Yaba, in Lagos.

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Council, WAEC has launched an Educational Statistics Platform that will enable the public to have access to its data needed for research, planning and development purposes.

The Head of Narional Office of WAEC in Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Areghan launched the platform at the Council’s Office in Yaba, Lagos.

He said that the platform was necesitated by the barrage of requests the Council usually recieve from the public, particularly, government agencies, researchers and some individuals that needed some WAEC educational data for development or investigative purposes.

He stressed that the need for WAEC to have all the statistical data relating to the examinations it had conducted in the past was also informed by the request usually recieved from some corporate organisations and individuals across the world, demanding that WAEC should furnish them with some relevant information for research purposes.

Mr. Areghan therefore, explained that with the new Educational Statistics Platform, the public can easily log onto the designated website of the council to access whatever data they required as far as WAEC examinations were concerned.

The WAEC boss in Nigeria added that the issue of some state governments claiming that students in their state had the best results in WAEC examination in a particular year could now be verified on the platform.

Taking the audience through various steps by which data could be accessed on the new, WAEC Educational Statistics Platform a product manager of an ICT firm that designed the platform, Mr. Akintunde Opawole said information like the number of candidates that sat examination in a particular year, how many candidate passed or failed in an examination, names of schools or candidates that performed exceptionally well, state by state assessment in examination, ages of those that sat an examination diet and and their gender among others could be accessed on the platform.

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