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West African Examinations Council, Sierra Leone

The West African Examinations Council was established following the acceptance of the Jeffery Report by the colonial governments in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Sierra Leone and The Gambia, who passed appropriate ordinances in their Legislative Assemblies in 1951. The ordinances charge the Council with the responsibility of determining the examinations required in the public interest in West Africa, and empowered it to conduct such examinations and award appropriate certificates.

Liberia later joined the Council in 1974. The ordinances have now been replaced with the Convention which confers legal personality on the Council as an international organization.