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RSG Raises Standard For WASC, NECO Registration
The Rivers State Commissioner for Education, Dame Alice Lawrence Nemi has directed that henceforth candidates seeking to register for the West African School Certificate (WASC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) Examinations in both public and private secondary schools must present original certificates and photocopies of their junior secondary results.
Also, principals will be required to show transfer certificates and results of students admitted into SS 3 in their various schools before such candidates would be registered for the two examinations.
This, the commissioner explained, is a reaction to reported cases of irregularities associated with the on-going registration of students for public examinations in the state.
Dame Nemi stressed that these steps are taken to ensure that only bonafide secondary school students actually register for WAEC, NECO and SSCE and not external candidate, who should be sitting for WAEC, NECO and SSCE for private candidates in November/December as indicated by the examination bodies.
She added that the present administration is determined to stamp out cases of over registration of candidates for WAEC which, she noted, creates room for rowdiness and in effect examination malpractice for WASC and NECO examinations.
The commissioner thus directed, the Director of Secondary Education, Mrs Stella Wigwe to ensure that all principals comply with these directives immediately.
Meanwhile, as public and private primary and secondary schools resume for the 2009/2010 academic session, the state Commissioner for Education has condemned improper dressing among teachers of public primary and secondary schools in the state.
She made the condemnation during an unscheduled visit to Township State School, Moscow Road recently as part of her routine checks on school administration in the state.
The Education boss argued that as professionals teachers are role models who should dress smartly to give confidence to their pupil in all teaching and learning sessions.
She, however, directed the absence of pupils from schools and frowned at the practice where pupils and students are kept at home for days after resumption of schools, adding that parents and guidance should endeavour to send their pupils and students to school immediately after resumption.
Sogbeba Dokubo