The Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi disclosed disclosed this in abuja during an interactive session with Education correspondents.Wushishi said Lead University and Birmingham City University in the United Kingdom have reached out to NECO for information on its examinations.
He said the two universities have reached out to know the level of credibility of NECO examinations, so as to be used for admission.He disclosed that NECO has met the requirements from the Birmingham university, whereas, process is still on with the Lead City University.The NECO registrar also spoke about the digitalisation and the potential migration to Computer-Based Testing (CBT), acknowledging its complexity to NECO examinations.
institutions, considering the possibility of CBT.
The professor said the challenges that come with CBT should be thoroughly dealt with in relation to NECO unlike other examination bodies like JAMB that primarily use multiple-choice formats.“For the fact that NECO is the largest examination body by virtue of the number of examinations we conduct, migrating to CBT is a critical issue,” Wushishi said.“For JAMB, they are not examining candidates in so many subject areas, so they find it very easy to embrace CBT in their examinations and do multiple choice in their exams.“As far as NECO is concerned, if you look at the nature of our exams, particularly in SSCE internal for admissions into tertiary institutions, every year we examine students close to 1.5 million which is a large number.
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