The Federal Government is considering making SS3 students wait till the November external exam time before sitting for their West African Secondary School Examination.
It says it is considering this option if the negotiation it is having with the WAEC and other stakeholders, towards moving the WASSCE forward does not come through.
This was revealed by the Minister o State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, on Thursday during the Presidential Task Force Briefing on COVID-19.
He said, “The Ghanaians will take examinations peculiar to them. But they are all in the first part of the time table so we will work out a domestication module that will take our peculiar subjects behind after we have done generals.
“This will buy us the time we need for all of us to be at par with the rest of West Africa and operating at the same time because the unanimity with which WAEC has always worked is still very important to us.
“Nigeria is not moving away from it, the option would have been to go to November to take the GCE external exams. Nigeria is carefully studying that if in the event everything fails, we may go to that way.”
