Minister Orders WAEC to Investigate
At the weekly press conference held on Tuesday 5th August, 2025, at the Conference Room of the Ministry of Information and Civic Education, Youyi Building, Brookfields in Freetown, the Minister of Basic and Secondary Education, Conrad Sackey has ordered the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) to investigate the mass absenteeism in the 2025 NPSE.
Minister Sackey told journalist that the Government of Sierra Leone paid to WAEC $25 for each students, noting that those pupils who could not sit to the exams government money has gone down the drain.
He informed the audience that the NPSE results were released on 7th July, 2025. He expressed satisfaction that more girls are taking the exams, adding that 78.2% of the NPSE pupils passed the exams.
Minister Sackey said his Ministry has developed a placement guideline when interviews would have started. He maintained that school principals would have to work with the committee that has already been set up. He disclosed that school request by principals will be sent to the Ministry of Trade for alignment of prices so as to prevent parents being exploited.
Madam Alimatu Massaquoi, PRO for Conference of Principals of Schools disclosed that interviews for admission into Junior Secondary School will start on 18th Augusts, 2025.
She spoke on the delay to disburse government subsidies to government and government assisted schools.
