Tunde Sanni
20 August 2008
Ibadan — Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Professor Nurain Olawore, has expressed concern about the growing rate of examination malpractices among students of post-primary schools.
Olawore, at the 1st annual lecture titled, "Examination Malpractices: Cankerworm in the Nigeria Education System ," organised by Yorlat Concept, said Nigerians would continue to experience fraud in their education system, in as much as they emphasised on paper qualification only and not on practical.
According to him, examination malpractices could be described as a cancerous disease, whose cure is yet to be found, adding that the menace demanded an urgent national attention, like that given to economic crime and HIV/AIDS.
Olawore said "you can imagine a case of a higher institution student who came to obtain his certificate and could not simply write original copy received by me, you can see it is a very pathetic situation."
He attributed the ordeal of an 11-year-old-girl, whose two hands were amputated as a result of an error made by a quack medical doctor to the danger exam malpractices pose to the nation, saying that the doctor was apparently a product of examination malpractices during his school days.
He then appealed to parents to desist from forcing their wards to choose courses against their wish, and advised teachers to be genuine role models to their students, rather than teaching them evils in school.
He commended organisers of the programme and pledged the support of the state government to the concept, that is ready to sanitise the education sector.
An educationist, Chief Taye Ayorinde, blamed both government and parents for increase in the practices, attributing it to quest for plum jobs for their children.
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