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WAEC Nigeria leverages technology, launches educational statistical platform

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) in Nigeria on Wednesday launched a new Education Statistics (EDUSTAT) platform, to ease access to quality data and insights in the educational sector.

EDUSTAT is an innovative educational statistics platform designed to leverage WAEC’s comprehensive and reliable database of over 50million candidates who have been tested over the years.

According to the Head of National Office (HNO), WAEC Nigeria, Mr. Patrick E. Areghan, EDUSTAT is borne out of the desire to provide stakeholders, including researchers, funding agencies, government institutions, school administrators and parents with a reliable platform that provides educational insights collected from multiple sources and delivered in simplified graphs, summaries, and dashboards which help them enhance their decisions. 

The HNO who unveiled the innovation noted that its core benefit is access to a  comprehensive interactive web report; adding that the platform offers detailed and smart statistical insights into education and assessment dynamics, using historical and current data to provide detailed intelligence for stakeholders across the globe, in a smart and easily accessible manner.

He emphasized that it became expedient for the examining body to completely migrate from the manual way of interpreting data to a more sophisticated and advanced mode of data interpretation through technology; having survived the centrifugal forces of the colonial era, yet remains the foremost examining body in the West African Sub-region, with a vast and rich database.

“The new world is smarter and more instant. The access to statistical data analysis, its collation, interpretation and presentation cannot be different. Businesses and organizations alike need every edge and advantage they can get to improve service delivery. For 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. One of the key features of the platform is its ability to analyse data in real-time. This means that educators can get immediate feedback on how their students are performing, enabling them to adjust their teaching strategies as needed,” the HNO explained.

Because WAEC recognizes the importance of data privacy and security, the HNO disclosed that the platform has been built with the highest standards of data protection in mind, ensuring that all data are kept confidential and secure at all times. 

Benefits of EDUSTAT

The new platform seeks to change views about data analysis by providing users with easy-to-use tools to analyse and visualize data.  

For Government agencies, the platform provides detailed statistics on student enrolment, graduation rates, and academic performance at various levels of government. Such 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. The data can be used to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses within the school and informed decisions about how to improve student outcomes.

Also, institutions such as Universities and Colleges can benefit from the platform by accessing data on enrolment 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.

The platform provides researchers with a comprehensive and intuitive way to track and analyse educational statistics. It is designed to be accessible to educators at all levels, from classroom teachers to school administrators and policy makers. 

Users of WAEC EDUSTAT can log on to www.waec.edustat.ngto 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. 


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