The Monopoly Of WAEC

                                              The Monopoly Of WAEC
WAEC, as an examining body has been enjoying the power of Monopoly in your basic and secondary school for quite some time now, which I think need to be looked at.
For about a score and three years now, WAEC has been the sole" examination body in the sub region, hence if you fail their examination, you won't be able to move up to the next level in education.
I think there should be other examining bodies where students and parents will have the chance to choose from. By so doing, there is going to be competition among them (the examination bodies), hence will improve the the quality of examination .
We all know the frustration and emotional trauma candidates go through when a subject which they have already written is been cancelled which in most cases happen to be no fault of theirs but rather faults of some officials at the WAEC, who have decided to think with their stomach instead of their heads by selling question papers to some heads of schools and parents.
They don't care about the outcome of their negative actions and attitude.
I remember in 2002 when all papers of the BECE had to be cancelled and students had to rewrite everything all over again. Most students were emotionally affected and couldn't rewrite ,most especially, those in the villages who had to travel hours before getting to their examination centres.
Again in 2009, when the English Paper of the WASCE was cancelled due to the leaking of the said subject, it affected some candidates negatively.
Furthermore in 2015, some papers in the BECE were cancelled. Candidate had to spend extra days learning to rewrite a paper that they had already written. This was as a result of actions of some irresponsible officials of WAEC.
All this is as a result of WAEC enjoying the Monopoly in our Basic and Secondary schools as the sole examination body in the country.
I think it's high time the government and the Ghana education service found a lasting solution to this dilemma. If the Government and GHANA Education Service can't take over from WAEC, then I suggest the break the Monopoly of WAEC by introducing other examining bodies into our basic and secondary educational systems. After all, there are a lot of equally competent examination bodies that can perform the task if not better than WAEC.
If there are two or three examining bodies in the country that students will have to choose from, the issue of examination leakages hence cancellation of papers will be drastically reduced if not stopped completely.
by Ras Mish.