Education
UBE Board Blames Exams Malpractices On Parents, Communities
The Rivers State branch of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) Board has blamed parents and leaders of communities for examination malpractices in the state.
Speaking with The Tide in his office, weekend, the public relations officer of the UBE Board Mr Dimiary Franklin said the issue of examination malpractice cannot only be checked by the government adding that it is a joint responsibility of everybody; parents, community and the society including the government.
According to him, often times, parents and some community leaders go the extra mile to ensure that their children and wards get all the required papers by involving experts to write exams for them.
“What I think is important for parents and communities to do is to provide the necessary things for students to pass their exams, such as books and school materials that can enable the children to learn appropriately so as to pass their exams” he said.
He continued, “if the children are well monitored and necessary books provided, there is no way such children will not enter an examination hall with confidence.”
Mr. Franklin, noted that “our own duty as a Board is to ensure that teachers go to their classrooms and actually teach the students accordingly.
We give the teachers the right environment, infrastructure and also provide materials regularly to enable them carryout their functions effectively.
On how to ensure that the teachers are properly monitored, Mr Franklin said, the Department of Supervision and Quality Control Assurance regularly visit the schools to check the lesson notes of students and the lesson notes of teachers in a bid to ascertain the reports provided by the teachers to the Board.
He advised students to take their academic work seriously, saying that “as students they should know that they have external internal exams to pass. Stating that without putting more effort, it will be difficult to attain it.
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