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.
Automatic classification of TV news articles based on telop character recognition
The purpose of this study is to develop a multimedia database system for TV news video data. TV news video data consist of speech, characters and images. In this study, telop characters are recognized and given to the news articles as indices for classification. At first, telop frames which include telop characters are detected and then the telop characters are extracted and recognized. Through morphological analysis of the recognized telop characters, keywords are extracted which consist of more than two characters. Their keywords are used as indices to classify the TV news articles. We carried out experiments for 30 days of NHK 5 minutes news and obtained 95.4% telop character extraction rate, 81.4% character recognition rate and 83.8% article classification rate. We improved the article classification rate by 43.4% through character recognition improvement from 44.1% to 81.4%.