Examination misconducts: A threat to sustainable national development
National development concerns all Nigerians, the nation continues development is threaten by the disturbing rate of continues abuse of the widely believed to be most convenient, cheap, reliable and consistent means of measuring the level of intelligence of students i.e. examination in various institutions of learning. These wrong acts (examination misconducts) is perpetrated by parents or guardians who buy papers or bribe examiners/invigilators, educators who collect money and turn a blind eye, lazy students who do not take their studies serious and still desire to get the best score, the examiners who set and mark the papers, typist of the questions papers, printer who supervise printing arrangements or transport printed questions, supervisors who supervise the conduct of the examinations, invigilator at the centers/halls, proprietors, school systems such as Colleges, Monotechnics, Polytechnics and Universities are all guilty of various examination misconducts. Societal misfits, low standard of education, unsustainable education and community, unproductive societies, Insularity of Nigeria school systems from the global academic world and others are the results. More effort is required to combat Examination misconducts for the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and sustainable nation growth. The paper looks into current examination misconducts such as assault on examination officials, and offering money to examiner as inducements among others; factors encouraging it; it effects on nation building and challenges; and suggest ways of overcoming examination misconducts.
A Critique of Students’ Vices and the Effect on Quality of Graduates of Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
Abstract One of the most pressing issues in minds of people in Nigeria as far as education is concerned today is that pertaining to the quality or standard of education. Qualitative education should lead to detectable gains in knowledge, skills and values. There are, however, several students’ vices that seem to be militating against realization of the desired qualitative education in Nigerian tertiary institutions. Some of these vices are cultism, drug abuse, examination malpractice, obscene dressing and sexual promiscuity/harassment. Each of these vices and the possible social and academic implications are explained. Major employers of Nigerian graduates have widely agreed on quality decline in higher education in the country, particularly in the areas of communication in oral and written English and technical proficiency. It is recommended that the responsibility of preventing or curbing general students’ vices in Nigerian tertiary institutions be a collective one resting on parents, teachers, religious leaders, authorities of the institutions as well as government. This can be done through appropriate upbringing, counseling and necessary sanctions.
Good elementary education
Abstract The aim of this study is to identify good elementary education standards that would contribute to the elimination of inequalities in the implementations regarding the utilization -and making it utilized- of the right to elemetary education. Being a descriptive one, this study attempted to identify the definitions and explanations of the right to education in universal documents by a review of literature. The study then attempted to explain the drawbacks concerning the protection and the utilization of the right to education. The study proposes some standards such as accessibility, content, operation so as to eliminate the obstacles hindering the utilization of the right to elementary education.