The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is set to launch its much-awaited digital certificate platform on October 20, 2022.
A statement by the council’s Acting Head, Public Affairs Moyosola Adesina, explained that the WAEC Digital Certificate Platform is a mobile and web-based application designed for candidates, individuals, institutions, and organisations to enable them access, share, request, confirm certificates and recover forgotten WAEC candidates’ examination numbers.
It noted that candidates who have sat for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in the past and present are able to access and share the original copies of their certificates with ease.
The council also noted that it is designed to eliminate the bureaucratic bottlenecks associated with the manual procedures of certificate issuance and collection.
“The West African Examinations Council is excited and thrilled to introduce this innovation at a time the global world has gone digital. This further proves that the Council maintains its vision of being a world-class examining body, adding value to the educational goals of its stakeholders, by providing timely solutions to all the bureaucratic bottlenecks associated with the academic certificates.
“The digital platform creates an easier, instant and safer mode of accessing certificates by stakeholders. With this digital platform, users will be able to recover burnt, lost, and damaged certificates.
“The benefits of this innovation are enormous, as candidates who have sat for the WASSCE in the past and present are able to access and share the original copies of their certificates with ease, the original copies of their certificates, which can be instantly confirmed from a credible and reliable source, regardless of the location,” the statement added.
The council said institutions, organisations and recruitment agencies can carry out bulk/individual confirmation of certificates at once, with ease, adding confirmation would eliminate the chances of fraud.
The digital certificate platform is available online via www.waec.org,while the mobile application can be downloaded on android and iOS app stores