Report on West Africa Examinations Council: Operations and Challenges

This report provides an overview of the West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC), detailing its establishment, functions, and structure. The council, established to regulate examinations in English-speaking West African nations, plays a crucial role in setting educational standards and providing examinations. The report covers the council's vision, mission, core values, and its international and national committees. Furthermore, it explores the establishment of the endowment fund in 1982, designed to promote educational projects, including providing learning materials and rewarding high-achieving students. The report also addresses challenges faced by the council, such as maintaining a rigorous curriculum. This document is available on Desklib, a platform providing students with access to past papers and solved assignments.

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West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC)
West Africa Examinations Council is one of the leading examining boards, which has been
founded by law in order to regulate examination in English speaking West African nations in
public interest. The major role of the council is conducting an examination, and it considered
awarding certificates when compared to other examining authorities working equivalent to
WAEC internationally. The board was founded ad established in 1952. The board is expected to
ensure the maintained educational standards, assistance is been provided for the creation of
effective education, and provide West African people with good potential that would go further
than the examination (waecnigeria, 2019).
The vision of the council is to become add value to goals of education of its key stakeholders and
become world class examining council. Moreover, the mission of the council included sustaining
as a leading examining board, encouraging academic excellence, providing reliable and
quantitative assessment for education, International Corporation and promoting sustainable
development of the human resource. The core values that the council acknowledged are integrity,
excellence, transparency, professionalism, teamwork, accountability, and innovativeness.
The board conducts various national and international examinations in each member nation,
other than Nigeria (waecnigeria, Home, 2019). The council is called to be a council with a strong
committee, whose structure is distributed in three key sections that are national committees,
subcommittees, and international committees. Among these, the national committee is
responsible for considering specific members nation matters to be handled. The treat matter that
affects every member nation is considered by the international committee. The international
committee is also responsible for maintaining harmony in national views concerning the policies

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of the board as a whole. Moreover, subcommittees are responsible for several council’s activities
aspects. For instance, the finance committee is responsible for WAEC’s financial status. Various
subcommittees are identified that are responsible to assist national and international committees.
A key achievement of the West Africa Examinations Council, other than the examination boards
and various examinations conducted by the council is the development of “Endowment fund.”
The board establishes an endowment fund in 1982 in Liberia. The two key reasons for the
establishment of this fund were the promotion of educational projects and providing yearly
lectures. As per the reports, the educational projects we're working on the purchase of learning
materials like books for less privileged children and donate books to overcome the problem of
students’ poor performance due to lack of reading materials. Another aspect considered for
educational projects were encouraging student who performs well through award giving to keep
them work excellently in further examinations as well. However, there were some of the issues
faced by the council as well. One of the recent issues faced was the failure of the council to keep
the curriculum challenging and rigorous (legit, 2019).

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waecnigeria. (2019). AboutWAEC. Retrieved from waecnigeria:
http://www.waecnigeria.org/AboutUs/AboutWAEC.aspx
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http://www.waecnigeria.org/Home.aspx