South West States, agree to write WASSCE, AUG 24th.

The Development  Agenda for Western Nigeria said the  South-West states had signified their readiness to allow their pupils to sit for the 2020 WASSCE.

The Director General of DAWN, Seye Oyeleye, in a statement he issued on Wednesday, said the decision was part of the resolutions made by the state governments at the end of an online meeting initiated on Tuesday by the commission.

The meeting was held in collaboration with the forum of South-West education commissioners, special advisers on education and the state universal basic education board chairmen.

According to the statement,  the meeting was premised on the need to jointly agree on modalities for the 2020 WASSCE, resumption of schooling activities for the Senior Secondary School  3 pupils and other allied matters.

It stated, “The forum, after careful deliberations, considering peculiarities of each state and options available reached a consensus on the subject matters and  expresses thus: On WASSCE; state commissioners for education have signified readiness to enrol pupils for the 2019/2020  examination.”

It explained that considering the peculiarities of each state, the forum reached a consensus that at least by August 3, the SSS3 pupils should resume.

The forum added, “States should approach the Federal Government at the first instance seeking the postponement of the WASSCE by at least three weeks from the proposed resumption. At the second instance,  states should directly approach WAEC (the West African Examinations Council) to seek an extension of the WASSCE, to week  commencing August 24.”

 The forum added that all schools when reopening should have in place incident managers and that wardens should be appointed for every classroom.

It added that there would be  “intense advocacy campaigns of the stakeholders – parents, teachers, caregivers, proprietress/head teachers, and the pupils – on what is expected of them when schools resume.”