By Mohammed Yangida
Lafia
Centre for Educational Empowerment and Orientation (CEEO Nigeria), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has called for partnership among various institutions of learning, civil society groups and other critical stakeholders in order to curtail examination malpractices in the country.
The organisation’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Oyebisi Davidcrown, made the call yesterday in Keffi at an Awareness Research Presentation entitled “Educational Intelligence Virus and Academic Immune Deficiency Syndrome “EIV/AIDS2: The Resultant Effect of Examination Malpractice on the Intellectual Prowess of Learners and National Development.”
The campaign was organised by the NGO for 100/200 level Direct Entry students of the Faculty of Education, Nasarawa State University, Keffi.
Davidcrown said the awareness campaign was aimed at enlightening the students on the dangers of engaging in examination malpractices, adding that examination malpractices had brought setbacks to the socio-economic development of the country.
He said examination malpractices had affected the education sector negatively and called for all hands to be on deck in order to address the menace for the overall development of the education sector and the country at large.
He identified the effects of examination malpractices to include “killing the reading culture, excellence is thrown to the dogs, bring about fraudulent workforce, and kill self-confidence in learners, in addition to bringing the nation in to intellectual bankruptcy.”
Davidcrown called on the students to take their studies with seriousness in order to excel in the academic pursuit “so as to complement their parents/government’s huge investment” in their education.
Also speaking, Prof. Lubasa Nseendi of the Faculty of Education of the university commended the NGO for organising the awareness campaign and called for its sustenance.
He noted that the awareness campaign would go a long way in curbing examination malpractices not only in the institution, but in the society at large.
