CAMPAIGN: STOP EXAM MALPRACTICE NOW

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18 IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT EXAM MALPRACTICE

·         *It is a multi-party offence or crime but only one of them is usually sanctioned.

·         *Parents make exam racketeering thrive by offering money, favour and gifts to accomplices.

·         *Exam racketeering is to public exams (WAEC, JAMB) as exam malpractice is to private exams.

·         *Exam candidates can never cheat in droves unless other key stakeholders (accomplices) agree to and support the act.

·         *Massive exam malpractice and racketeering issues are usually negotiated and settled prior to an exam.

·         *Exam racketeering is the institutionalized system of exam malpractice.

·         *Exam malpractice encourages and makes teachers and students lazy and short of sound mind.

·         *Exam racketeering is usually rewarded in cash and kind.

·         *Exam malpractice denies labour market of competent hands or persons who can viably drive an organization or economy.

·         *Exam racketeering is conspiracy against quality education.

·         *Exam malpractice is the drain of intellectual capability; personal effectiveness and development.

·         *Exam racketeering is strongly institutionalized.

·         *Exam racketeering is pay-back time for money invested to secure government approval for private schools.

·         *Expensive private school approval fee encourages exam racketeering.

·         *When exam malpractice persists, it becomes exam racketeering.

·         *Exam malpractice and exam racketeering undermine the worth of a certificate as well as the awarding institutions.

·         *Exam malpractice and exam racketeering are the formal initiation pathways into corruption for a  growing child.

·         *Exam racketeering promotes ‘fail-outs’ or poor students into leadership positions above their better counter-parts.

8 REASONS EXAM MALPRACTICE  WILL EVER PERSIST

·         *If you keep sanctioning just one party (candidates) as usual out of the many parties to an exam malpractice.

·         *If it is not criminalized by law, the campaign will remain a matter of motion without movement.

·         *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.

·         *Lack of serious penalty yet to counter the social menace.

·         *Exam racketeering remains the quickest viable means for corrupt school owners to recover the fees paid to  government for approval of their schools.

·         *The outrageous fee charged by government for approving private schools makes them to engage in exam racketeering.

·         *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

JAMB: CBT REDUCES EXAM MALPRACTICE

 

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The spate of examination malpractice in the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examinations has reduced drastically. The report was disclosed by the The President of the Computer-Based Test Centre Proprietors Association of Nigeria (CPAN) during its press conference in Abuja. 

 The President of the association, Engineer Sage Udibuami stated that the recent deployment of the Computer-based Test (CBT) strategy contributed tremendously at eradicating cheating in examinations conducted by Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) since three years ago that the strategy was launched. He maintained that his association (CPAN) has no regret in partnering with the examination body.

He mentioned drastic reduction in all forms of  exam malpractice, no swapping of answer sheets, release of results within 24 hours and low recurrence of  leakage of question papers as some of the achievements. Udibuami made known the plan of CPAN following JAMB’s outcry, to invest in CBT so as to help close the gap of  infrastructural deficit in various examination centres throughout the nation.

2016 Nov/Dec WASSCE : An Improved Result

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The result of private candidates who wrote the  2016 Nov/Dec West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) has been released. The result which was released on December 16,2016 shows an improvement in students' performance compared to what obtained in year 2014 and 2015.

Mr. Olu Adenipekun, who is the Head of the Nigeria National Office (HNO) of the council, said it was an improvement from the 29.37 per cent and 20.59 per cent in the two immediate preceding years respectively. He stated that a total of 66,497 (38.50 per cent) of the 172,699 candidates that sat for the examination obtained credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.                       

175,699 candidates (99.31 per cent) of the 176,621 that were registered had their results fully processed and released.  But (0.69 per cent) representing 1,210 candidates have a few of their subjects being held due to some errors. The HNO further explained that such candidates may still have their results reconsidered and released by the examining council.       

Further analysis shows that:

 149,651 candidates (86.65 per cent ) have credits and above in two subjects

134,152 candidates (77.67 per cent) have credits and above in three subjects

116,133 candidates (67.25 per cent) have credits and above in four subjects

95,294 candidates (55.18 per cent) have credits and above in five subjects

72,229 (41.82 per cent) have credits and above in six subjects.

13,488 candidates (7.81 per cent) have their results being withheld for various cases of examination malpractice.

Ogun State Earmarks N70m For School Rehabilitation

Ogun state has earmarked the sum of 70million naira for the rehabilitation of public primary schools in the the year 2017.

The statement was made by the Chairman,  Ogun Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) during the presentation of the budget proposal to the Finance and Appropriation committee of the state's House of Assembly in Abeokuta.

Olatunde Okeowo disclosed that the amount would cover any occurrence of natural disaster in the public primary schools across the three senatorial districts of the state. According to him, the sum of N260.5 million would be used for the provision of consumable and non-consumable instructional materials, retraining of teachers and conduct of unified examination for primary schools. He further clarified that N1.5billion is for capital expenditure, while N580 million is budgeted for recurrent expenditure.

Oyo State: Razed School Structures Must Be Rebuilt By Parents

The Governor of Oyo State has stated that all schools' structures razed by student during the violent agitation for automatic promotion of students in the state must be rebuilt by the parents of children involved in the act. He made the statement during a programme in which the new education policy of the state was disclosed.

Ajimobi made known to the public that schools in the state will now be run by a Governing Board which implies that the communities and other stakeholders will be involved  in monitoring for efficiency and maintenance of high standards in schools. Th Governor posits that the era of automatic promotion is over and that 80% classroom attendance is now a pre-requisite for promotion. He said the move becomes necessary owing to the poor performance of students in public examinations since the year 1999. Ajimobi vowed that government would not order the re-opening of the razed schools unless rebuilt by the parents of the vandal students. 

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While reiterating the abolition of automatic promotion of students in schools, Ajimobi added that 80 per cent attendance to classes had also become a pre-requisite for promotion.
“The statistics of our performance in public examinations since 1999 has been discouraging. It was therefore imperative that we arrest this situation and change our way of running schools, hence the need for new education policy.
“We therefore insisted on not promoting any student who failed to meet the pass criteria, yet you have some students who decided to raze their schools in protest to the no automatic policy.
“That is untoward and we won’t accept such act. The parents of those children who razed the schools will be responsible for the re-building of those schools. If they fail to rebuild those structures, we will not order the reopening of those schools that we shut. We won’t tolerate thuggery in our schools.
“In fact, 80 per cent attendance to classes by students is also a pre-requisite for promotion. Government alone cannot be responsible for the running of schools, so there must be participation of others in the management of schools. The school governing board means the community other stakeholders will be involved in monitoring for efficiency and maintenance of high standards in schools.
“The government will continue to employ teachers and our teachers must be re-trained to be more effective. However, the School Governing Board will monitor those teachers,” he said.
The event was attended by government officials, members of the state executive council, traditional rulers, Nigeria Union of Teachers, old boys’ associations, All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), students’ associations among others.

SEX FOR MARK: LECTURERS SACKED, DEMOTED

The Federal Government of Nigeria has sacked 13 Lecturers and demoted 16 others for various offences which border around sex for mark.
The accused persons were investigated and convicted of the wrongdoing by panel set up to look into their cases.
Prior to now, such misconduct by lecturers was rampant in tertiary institutions throughout the country and has never been treated in this manner. As a result, impunity was the order of the day. Many undergraduate students particularly the female have had torrid times with such randy lecturers who had adversely affected their academic plight and forced uncompromising students out of school.
In few schools, some victims sought justice through physical and criminal confrontation with such lecturers.
However, It is hoped that this stance by government would put the disgraceful lecturers in check.
   
 

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CRIMINALISATION OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES

For the ultimate reason of restoring the pride of the Nigerian educational certificates and the protecting the image of any issuing institutions, it is inevitable and urgent to make laws to prosecute and jail culprits in order to deter others.

The unchecked appetite for certificates as a pre-condition for enjoying any opportunities is one of the causes. Over time, the nefarious acts have attained a dimension in which parties such as teachers, school heads, parents, staff of examining bodies and examination candidates now exchange money for certificates.

It is recommended that stringent penalties like the forfeiture of due (to-be-enjoyed)  benefits and restitution of the enjoyed benefits associated with the opportunities that any illegal certificates is used to acquire. All individual persons involved should be jailed accordingly and erring institutions thoroughly sanctioned.