RSUST Students Seek Holistic e-Examinations

Students of the Rivers State
University of Science and Technology (RSUST), Nkpolu, Port Harcourt, have appealed to their Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barine Fakae, to digitalise all examinations in the school.
The students who spoke separately with our reporter, Wednesday in Port Harcourt, said that the manual method of examination has become outdated.
A second-year Engineering student, Ipalibo Hart, said that the process of hand-written examination and other academic work was not only cumbersome, but old fashioned.
He explained that one was bound to reproduce almost exactly what he/she has learnt during e-exmination, saying that in manual examination, bad hand writing even earns students low grades.
Another respondent, Ejunwa Assor, said that since the Fakae-led RSUST government has started the e-education system, it should be holistic and not a half measure.
He pointed out that with e-education system, the era of missing scripts will end along side sorting in the University.
Assor, recalled how some students have spent extra years in the school due to the manual system of doing things.
According to him, the school would become a world class institution if it embraced total e-system in all its examinations and academic work.
A final year student, Nnamdi Amadi, also narrated how the Information Technology Centre (ITC) examination has boosted student’s morale, saying that it should cut across all examinations in the school.
He maintained that  it is a clean system, and must be allowed to take centre stage in the University system.
On the contrary, a lecturer in the Institute of Foundation Studies (IFS) of the school (RSUST) who pleaded anonymity, described the e-examination as a weak process.
The Professor who went memory lane recalled vividly how he was drilled in a University entrance examination in 1973.
He noted that even lazy students can make good grades in e-examinations, while calling on the Federal Government to properly fund the country’s Universities in order to enable them rank among world class tertiary institutions across the globe.