Nigeria: Mass Failure in SSCE Exams

24 October 2008

STUDENTS are the leaders of tomorrow. The young shall grow and the old shall go. Life is a relay race in which one generation passes the baton of life to another in an endless stream. In more ordered countries, the transition from one generation to the next is expected to be accompanied by rising levels of education as new knowledge is accumulated and disseminated among the people especially those in school.

Nigeria has become an exception to the rule. In the recent Secondary School Certificate Examinations, 14 per cent of the pupils that sat for the last examinations passed and a whopping 86 per cent failed in one degree. We have an emergency - if indeed the leaders of tomorrow are to emerge.

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