There are some educationists that have blamed parents for examination malpractice and mass failure in the examinations conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The educationists said that the foot wears embedded with cell phone were seized from candidates during the 2012 UTME conducted on March 24.
Dr Clementinah Owokade, a former Deputy Director, West African Examination Council (WAEC), said some parents often induced teachers to help their children to cheat in examinations.
"If students can be encouraged to learn, knowing that no one would assist them during exams, they would definitely study," she said.
Owokade also suggested additional motivation for teachers to make them reject financial inducement from parents who encourage malpractice.
She called for collaboration between schools and officials of the Ministry of Education to monitor examinations.
"There is little WEAC and other bodies can do. They are just the examination bodies and should not be saddled with total monitoring of their examinations," she said.
Also commenting on examination malpractice, an official of the Lagos State Examinations Board, Mrs Yemisi Oguntimehin, agreed with the idea that malpractice started with the knowledge of parents.
"Parents are certainly behind the problem because they encourage their children to pay agents for special examination centres where malpractice are at the highest level," she said.
Oguntimehin said that children with such parents would then waste their time on the internet, instead of studying because they know that they would be assisted in their examinations.
"It is indeed very sad that high reading culture has gradually been phased out, replaced with numerous forms of malpractice and laziness," she said.
Chief Abiodun Ajayi, a grandfather and a director with Palmline Agency, Apapa, blamed the situation on the current craze for greatness without hard work.
"All these problems of mass failure and malpractice are due to corruption. It is the basic bottleneck in our society," he said.
Ajayi believed that a good child, brought up in a good home, would produce an excellent result without any form of cheating.
Mr Gerald Emejom, an English teacher in a private school in Lagos, also blamed parents who, he said, pay exorbitant fees to examination agents to assist their children.
"These parents pay as much as N60,000 to agents who negotiate with invigilators and supervisors," he claimed.
A Mathematics teacher in a public school in Akure, Ondo State, Mrs Juliet Tedheke, also expressed sadness that students have evolved new ways to cheat, despite JAMB's anti-malpractice measures.
She told NAN on telephone that laziness on the part of the students and the economic situation of the country had forced people to engage in malpractice for money.
"The economy is so bad that questions are sold before the examination day. The teachers have less blame because they do extra work before the examination," she said.
NAN reports that about 27,000 results were withheld by JAMB for various malpractice in the recently released UTME results.
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