WAEC Promotes Access To Quality Data With New Educational Statistics Platform

By LOVETH AZODO,

The West African Examination Council has launched an Educational Statistics (EDUSAT) platform to ease access to quality data and insights in the educational sector.

The Council officially launched the platform Today at its new hall, national office in Lagos.

Speaking on the innovation, the Head of National Office, (HNO) WAEC, Mr. Patrick Ehidiamen Areghan, FCGP revealed that the innovation was done to take the edge off the manual access to data by stakeholders, improve the quality of service delivery and generate more revenue for the Council.

He maintained that the Council has again leveraged on technology, detailed data analysis and insights, to establish itself as a leading light in the educational sector and a future brand by introducing this Educational Statistical Platform.

According to him, many stakeholders, lack of quality data has led to inconsistencies and multiple data copies in education. For others, incorrect data and the absence of analytics have led to false facts resulting in bad decisions-making and loss of revenue, in some cases.

“WAEC identified these issues and sought to solve the problem through its new EDUSTAT product, which addresses poor infrastructure and the manual process of assessing educational insights and statistics,” he said.

He iterated that the West African Examinations Council is committed to its mission of remaining Africa’s foremost examining body, providing qualitative and reliable educational assessment, encouraging academic and moral excellence, and promoting sustainable human resource development and international cooperation. In meeting the growing global demands for corporate organisations, sometimes,

Highlighting the benefits of the platform, Areghan noted that the new platform seeks to change views about data analysis by providing users with easy-to-use tools to analyze and visualize data.

He said that It offers a wide range of features that will benefit our users. For Government agencies, it provides detailed statistics on student enrollment, graduation rates, and academic performance at various levels of government. This information will help policy makers make data-driven decisions about education policy, funding, and program design.

“For schools, the platform offers student-level data on academic performance, attendance, and demographic information. This data can be used to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses within the school and informed decisions about how to improve student outcomes. Institutions such as universities and colleges can also benefit from the platform by accessing data on enrollment and academic performance of their students. This information can be used to identify areas where additional resources are needed to support students and improve overall performance, he added.

On data protection, he assured that the platform is built with the highest standards of data protection in mind, ensuring that all data are kept confidential and secure at all times.

“We are optimistic that our new educational statistics platform will be a game-changer for educators and students.”

“WAEC is proud to be at the forefront of this new era of educational technology and we are excited to see the positive impact it will have on the lives of students across the globe.”

He urged users of WAEC EDUSTAT to visit www.waec.edustat.ng to sign up, select parameters, select their preferred method of report generation (Summaries, Charts, Maps, Trends), make payments, download and use the content for personal / official purpose.