#StopExamMalpracticeNow
18 IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT EXAM MALPRACTICE
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*It is a multi-party offence or crime but only
one of them is usually sanctioned.
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*Parents make exam racketeering thrive by
offering money, favour and gifts to accomplices.
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*Exam racketeering is to public exams (WAEC,
JAMB) as exam malpractice is to private exams.
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*Exam candidates can never cheat in droves unless
other key stakeholders (accomplices) agree to and support the act.
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*Massive exam malpractice and racketeering issues
are usually negotiated and settled prior to an exam.
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*Exam racketeering is the institutionalized system
of exam malpractice.
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*Exam malpractice encourages and makes teachers
and students lazy and short of sound mind.
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*Exam racketeering is usually rewarded in cash
and kind.
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*Exam malpractice denies labour market of
competent hands or persons who can viably drive an organization or economy.
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*Exam racketeering is conspiracy against quality
education.
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*Exam malpractice is the drain of intellectual
capability; personal effectiveness and development.
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*Exam racketeering is strongly institutionalized.
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*Exam racketeering is pay-back time for money
invested to secure government approval for private schools.
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*Expensive private school approval fee encourages
exam racketeering.
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*When exam malpractice persists, it becomes exam
racketeering.
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*Exam malpractice and exam racketeering undermine
the worth of a certificate as well as the awarding institutions.
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*Exam malpractice and exam racketeering are the formal
initiation pathways into corruption for a growing child.
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*Exam racketeering promotes ‘fail-outs’ or poor students
into leadership positions above their better counter-parts.
8 REASONS EXAM MALPRACTICE WILL EVER PERSIST
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*If you keep sanctioning just one party (candidates)
as usual out of the many parties to an exam malpractice.
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*If it is not criminalized by law, the campaign
will remain a matter of motion without movement.
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*Lack of diligent prosecution of all culprits
will not deter any intending and uncaught offenders.
· *Exam racketeering is a huge source of revenue in
cash and kind to all parties (individuals & institutions) involved.
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*Lack of serious penalty yet to counter the social
menace.
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*Exam racketeering remains the quickest viable means
for corrupt school owners to recover the fees paid to government for approval of their schools.
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*The outrageous fee charged by government for
approving private schools makes them to engage in exam racketeering.
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*For as long as parents keep patronizing other
accomplices by offering money, gifts and
favour to them so their children can ‘pass’.
By Festus O. Odeyale
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