Over 70 percent of secondary school leavers are unfit for varsity admission...education minister
From ZION ZADOK, Abuja
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
SOURCE:www.sunnewsonline.com
"The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruquayyatu Rufa'i has said the current trend of failure in the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), National Examinations Council (NECO) and National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) has shown that over 70 per cent of secondary school leavers will not be considered for admission into higher institutions."
"The minister said this in Abuja on Tuesday at the National Examination Summit organized by the ministry to tackle what she described as a national embarrassment experienced in the mass failure of Nigerian students in external examinations in recent years. Rufa'i disclosed that prior to now, students who sat for such examinations always made the country proud. She said in the past six years, less than 30 per cent on average of over one million students barely make five credit passes in subjects that includes mathematics and English which were the basic minimum requirement for gaining admission into tertiary institutions."
"The minister said this in Abuja on Tuesday at the National Examination Summit organized by the ministry to tackle what she described as a national embarrassment experienced in the mass failure of Nigerian students in external examinations in recent years. Rufa'i disclosed that prior to now, students who sat for such examinations always made the country proud. She said in the past six years, less than 30 per cent on average of over one million students barely make five credit passes in subjects that includes mathematics and English which were the basic minimum requirement for gaining admission into tertiary institutions."
"Enumerating students performance in public examinations from 2006 to 2011, the percentage of candidates who passed with five credits and above including mathematics and English in 2006 May/June WAEC examinations was 22 per cent, and declined to 20 per cent in 2007, it then rose to 26 per cent in 2008 and maintained that percentage in 2009 but there was also a decline to 23 per cent in 2010 before the current 30 per cent in 2011."
"In the same vein, Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has lamented the disturbing trend of failure in examinations discovered almost a decade and had continued unabated and even degenerated to the level where value of certificates from school systems had become highly unacceptable on face value by institutions and employers both locally and internationally."
"This, he said, has gone so bad to the extent that most parents no longer had confidence in the quality of school systems in the country but for financial constraints, they would have opted for schools outside the country. Wike said over the years so much had been said and written about the factors responsible for poor performance of students in public examinations."
"This, he said, has gone so bad to the extent that most parents no longer had confidence in the quality of school systems in the country but for financial constraints, they would have opted for schools outside the country. Wike said over the years so much had been said and written about the factors responsible for poor performance of students in public examinations."
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Folks, these are the words of our ministers. Things are beyond a crisis level; do we have any compassion? I imagine that our Ministers of Education should be shot for denigrating our stellar education system before the world. The worst crime I can imagine is stealing a child's life. That is what education has become in Nigeria today. I refuse to stick my head in the sands because I am ashamed of what the white man will think. A pox on his houses, Does he not have eyes? Can he not see for himself? And today, GEJ removes the fuel subsidy and here we are arguing over semantics. Shame.
- Ikhide
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