The Babatope Memorial Excessive Faculty Previous College students Affiliation, Ikoro Ekiti (BATOMEH), has lamented elevated circumstances of malpractice amongst college students sitting for the West African Senior Faculty Examination (WASSCE) and the Basic Certificates of Examination (GCE), and referred to as for concerted efforts from all involved to stamp out the menace.
Recall that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) withheld outcomes of about 215,267 candidates, who sat the Could-June exams as a result of examination malpractice.
A few of the outcomes have been, nevertheless, launched final Wednesday after the 78th assembly of the examination physique held to debate problems with malpractice and irregularities reported throughout the exams.
Reacting to the event at a press briefing in Ado Ekiti, the Secretary of the affiliation, Taiwo Akanbi, urged Governor Abiodun Oyebanji to declare zero tolerance for examination malpractice.
“I witnessed an unlucky incident the place a scholar was saying that no one can go WASSCE with out assist or help. We hear of particular centres. On the finish of the day, we see college students passing WASSCE however unable to defend their outcomes on the college.”Talking on the poor state of infrastructure within the college, the president of the affiliation who was represented by Mr Bamidele Lucas, urged the Ekiti State authorities to improve the services, noting that efficient instructing and studying can’t happen in an unconducive atmosphere.
Lucas lamented that a lot of the constructions they used 25 years in the past are nonetheless those getting used, regardless of being in very deplorable situation.
“You recognize that instructing and studying atmosphere is so delicate that in the event you don’t present crucial infrastructure, you’ll be able to’t get the specified outcomes.
He additionally expressed concern over lack of academics, saying this knowledgeable the affiliation’s determination to rent academics to enhance what the federal government has offered.
