Niger Delta
RSG MovesTo Improve Education Standard

As part of efforts to instill academic discipline in schools, the Rivers State Government has said that students who fail to sit for the Junior West African Examination Certificate (Junior WAEC) would not be admitted into the Senior Secondary School (SSS).
The state Commissioner for Education, Dr. Tamunosisi Gogo-Jaja who disclosed this when he appeared as a guest at a Radio programme monitored by The Tide in Port Harcourt, stated that the era of getting admitted into SSS without sitting for Junior WAEC was over.
He said, “From September (this year) there will not be any need for parents to come to the ministry. We have been receiving calls to ask whether this school is approved or not. There will not be any need for that. With the RivEMIS platform a parent will sit in his or her house if you want to send your child to any school whether public or private you can have a look at what the school look like.
“Now you can sit in your house and access some of the schools because as soon as you log onto our site, you will see the list of approved schools. That is what we are doing. From September you will not just see the list of approved schools, you will see the facilities because we are insisting that all schools must upload their facilities.
“Let me also tell you that from September anyone who does not sit for the Junior WAEC will not be admitted into the Senior Secondary School,” Gogo-Jaja noted; saying the state government will not relent in ensuring the provision of quality education to its citizens.
“Governor Wike came and said we need to streamline a lot of things. We need to check a lot of leakages. Now that gave birth to the introduction of RivEMIS today. It is for proper management.
“Today if you want to operate a private school in the state you will sit in your office, do your application, you pay online and the money go direct to the state government and you see an evidence. Let us look at where we are coming from before Governor Nyesom Wike came on board, where was Rivers State?
“Part of the issues WAEC considers in rating the states is your drive to stop examination malpractices. They don’t look at the structures you have on the ground. That accounts for the reason Governor Wike said as soon as he came on board that we must try as much as possible to ensure that we stop examination malpractices in our schools,” he stated.
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