Deeply saddened by the steep fall in the standard of education in the country leading to the continuous churning out of half-baked graduates into the labour industry, respondents who spoke to Quadlife have attributed this to the high rate of examination malpractice perpetrated at all levels of the education system.
According to them, this trend that has bedeviled the country’s education sector, if left unchecked, will continue to spell doom for the country, especially as certificates issued by any of its schools would not be regarded as more valuable than the piece of paper on which it isprinted upon in the international scene.
Even though the Senate has last February placed a ban on miracle centres across the country, perpetrators of this crime to education and sound morals seem to have proliferated in our primary, secondary and tertiary institutions.
A major reason why examination malpractice has become a common trend in our generation is laziness on the part of students. A large percentage of students now find it difficult to sit down and study at a stretch for two hours or more.
They (students) occupy themselves with unnecessary activities. Some students prefer to stay awake all night chatting on social networks rather than reading their books.
Although students should be blamed for not being diligent in the place of study, parents should also take part of the blame. A large number of parents are so much involved with their business activities that they fail to perform some of their duties to their children, like checking their home work to see how well the child is faring and how much effort still needs to be put in by the child.
Parents are meant to help their children develop a good reading habit right from childhood so that when he grows, he will not depart from it. Furthermore, the increase innumbers of sub-standard schools in our society also is a factor. The end products of such are students who cannot spell their names correctly.
More so, the obsession for certificate in our society is another reason for the increase in examination malpractice in our society. Employers of labour have concerned themselves more with certificate rather than abilities of thewould be employees.
This in turn as increase the struggle among whom all wants to graduate with the best grades, to stand a chance in the labour market. And so, those students who can’t cope with the pressure turns to examination malpractices.
Amidst all these, procrastination among stakeholders seem to contribute to the problem.
Government keeps postponing whatshould have been done earlier, before getting them done with fire brigade approach.
These same traits have been inherited by students who wait till a week before their exams to start reading. Such student will be able to read little or nothing, and the only way they think they can scale through is indulge in this unlawful act.
As this trend portends a sad omen for the growth and development of the nation, respondents who spoke to Quadlife on this trend, however, blamed its rapid increase to the lip service paid by all stakeholders in the country towards a massive revamping of the country’s education system.
They held that the government, parents, teachers and students mustbe held responsible for this decadence, unless they join hands together to fight this menace to a standstill.
Commenting on the negative impactof examination malpractices on our education section, while proffering possible solutions, Mrs. Olaleye opined: “Students should be encouraged in every way possible toread more; There should be camerasfixed in the examination halls and students should not be given exam scripts to mark.”
On her part, Mrs. Folusho Alfred Etu described the trend as dishearteningowing to students’ laziness to read in our society. Meanwhile, Etu also said, “lack of encouragement from the parents and the lack of enforceable penalties on defaulters also spell doom for the country.”
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