This is a suggestion by the The Minister of State for Education, Barr Ezenwo Wike.He said this during an event. Wike made the recommendation while addressing journalists at the
pre-60th annual council meeting of West African Examination Council
(WAEC) held in Lagos.
According to Wike, miracle centres exist in Nigeria because there are no tougher sanctions against the operators and their centres. He said the current two year ban on such centres appears not stringent enough.
"When you ban a school for 10 years, three things are most likely to happen. The first being that parents will start withdrawing their children from such schools. The second is that the community will not want such schools to stay within the vicinity while the third is that the students themselves will no longer register with such schools. When all this happens, you have invariably sent such a school out of business," Wike said.
The minister also expressed Federal Government's readiness to partner the examination body to combat the menace of examination malpractice, especially in the annual Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) being conducted by WAEC and other examinations bodies. According to Wike, all the loopholes being explored by students and their schools to cheat during examinations will be blocked.
"We have been partnering WAEC to ensure that some of the strategies being employed by candidates in public examinations to cheat are blocked, including the existence of 'miracle centres'. These have become imperative, considering the damage examination malpractice has done to our educational system," Wike said.
Speaking in the same vein, Iyi Uwadiae, Head, WAEC national office, said it is unfortunate that WAEC as an examination body lacks the power to monitor enrollment of students to some of the notorious "miracle centres". He said the framework of WAEC is limited to accepting data and passport photographs of registered candidates for examination from the participating schools.
"Whenever we announce registration for the annual examination, the schools approach us, give us the data of their registered students and will tell us that they have been accredited by the Ministry of Education.
When it comes to control of candidates, WAEC lacks such legal rights. Neither can we monitor their progression from Senior Secondary 1 to 3.
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According to Wike, miracle centres exist in Nigeria because there are no tougher sanctions against the operators and their centres. He said the current two year ban on such centres appears not stringent enough.
"When you ban a school for 10 years, three things are most likely to happen. The first being that parents will start withdrawing their children from such schools. The second is that the community will not want such schools to stay within the vicinity while the third is that the students themselves will no longer register with such schools. When all this happens, you have invariably sent such a school out of business," Wike said.
The minister also expressed Federal Government's readiness to partner the examination body to combat the menace of examination malpractice, especially in the annual Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) being conducted by WAEC and other examinations bodies. According to Wike, all the loopholes being explored by students and their schools to cheat during examinations will be blocked.
"We have been partnering WAEC to ensure that some of the strategies being employed by candidates in public examinations to cheat are blocked, including the existence of 'miracle centres'. These have become imperative, considering the damage examination malpractice has done to our educational system," Wike said.
Speaking in the same vein, Iyi Uwadiae, Head, WAEC national office, said it is unfortunate that WAEC as an examination body lacks the power to monitor enrollment of students to some of the notorious "miracle centres". He said the framework of WAEC is limited to accepting data and passport photographs of registered candidates for examination from the participating schools.
"Whenever we announce registration for the annual examination, the schools approach us, give us the data of their registered students and will tell us that they have been accredited by the Ministry of Education.
When it comes to control of candidates, WAEC lacks such legal rights. Neither can we monitor their progression from Senior Secondary 1 to 3.
DO YOU SUPPORT OR OPPOSE THE MOTION?
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