Curbing the Menace of Examination Malpractice
everyone has a role to play.
Parents must wake up to their duty. Charity they say begins at home. There is every reason to belief that the wide spread examination misconduct is a direct index of the decay in the homes. The all-important duty of parental training must be re-visited. No stone should be left untouched; no energy should be spared in ensuring proper home training of our children. It is very necessary to inculcate in them, the priceless virtue of integrity, hardwork and honesty if we expect them to make us proud tomorrow. Parents should not only give their children the best of education but discourage every tendency in them to get involved in malpractices.
Our beloved teachers and school administrators must regain their sanctity of years gone by. The teacher’s work is more than ‘working for earnings’, it is a call. Living up to expectation is however not negotiable if their works will indeed be rewardable. They must resist every temptation to enrich their pockets through corrupt and unrighteous means, knowing that “an inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning but the end thereof shall not be blessed” (King Solomon). They owe their students guidance in the path of duty and virtue. They must teach so well that their students will have no reason to indulge in any form of examination malpractice. Value re-orientation and virtue inculcation should form part of their teachings since, students must be found worthy not only in learning but also in character.
The strongest link in examination malpractice has been noted to be the students themselves. What this means is that if students choose not to cheat, there will be no cheating. My dear student, you don’t need to cheat in order to succeed even if many people do. Success that is not borne out of hardwork and burning the mid night candle is a worthless counterfeit. You are too big to get yourself into that kind of dirty, shameful thing. With diligence, discipline and determination you can fly high in any examination. Adequate preparation well ahead of time will make it almost impossible for you to fail. In doing this you need to start from the beginning of the term, not when examination is around the corner. That is the practice of purpose driven achievers.
Examination bodies like JAMB are doing better now a day. With the introduction of photograph, and fingerprints, there is good security measure for examination papers and conduct. Much can be done in ensuring that their officials are the right set of people for their purpose. Fraudulent staff and those with questionable characters should be identified and shown the way out. Other examination bodies can emulate these virtues and possibly improve on them.
Governments at all level and all well-meaning Nigerians should join in the fight against examination malpractices. The issue of corruption should be tackled with all the seriousness it deserves. Exemplary leadership is one good way to start. Adequate funding of education, teachers welfare, provision of good learning environment, proper monitoring of the schools, etc, will go a long way in restoring the lost glory of our educational standards and will contribute in no small way to curbing examination malpractice and in the long run, corruption.
Perpetrators of examination malpractice should in any case be reminded of the law of divine retribution (what a man sows he shall reap, though hands should be joined together, the wicked shall not go unpunished). They should understand that if the long arm of the law fails to catch them, the arm of the Almighty certainly will not.Let us all join hands to wipe out examination malpractice. It is the sure way to restore our fallen educational standards and our image internationally. Such victory will chart a new course for national growth, productivity and development.
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I want to sincerely appreciate the work you have done so far and am also contributing to this that to be an achiever is something that require diligence, focus and be passionate about whatsoever he/she knows how to do best.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much. Yes, achievers must be focused and diligent, else, their dream about success will at the best become one of the greatest dreams that never saw the light of the day.
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