Minister of Education, Prof. Ruquayyatu Rufa’i, has explained that 16,000 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results were cancelled by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, because of examination malpractices by the candidates.
She said: ”We shall be resolute in our decisions as there shall be no sacred cows. Nobody, no matter how highly placed, will be allowed to get away with the breach of the law or perpetration of corruption and evil in our colleges and tertiary institutions.”Rufa’i spoke through Mr. Julius Ameh, yesterday, in Abuja, during the presentation of the Teachers’ Guide for the teaching of the National Values Curriculum, NVC, in Basic Education, which was funded by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC.
The minister said the inclusion of the guide into the numerous literature available in the education sector, especially on corruption and value orientation, was an indication of the premium which the administration placed on education and transparency in the conduct of government business.
She said: “It is also an eloquent testimony of the present administration’s determination to heal the wounds of the past quickly, put the ugly past behind and use the new NVC to stretch hands of fellowship to aggrieved Nigerians for complete reconciliation.
“The Nigerian child must be encouraged and taught that integrity pays.”
His self respect must be restored and his growth process rewarded through mentoring and parental care.” – she added.
Chairman of ICPC, Ekpo Nta, in his address, said that the NVC was applicable at all levels of education and was designed to expose the Nigerian child to a value-based curriculum that incorporates ethical values into academic studies from the early years to adulthood.
“The curriculum has been infused into subjects and courses at basic, post-basic and teacher-education levels. It has also been infused into the curriculum of mass literacy and non-formal education,” he said.
Nta further pointed out the need for teachers to be trained and properly oriented on the methodology and behavioural imperatives for imparting such values.
“We therefore, request commissioners for education and chairmen of SUBEB to order for more copies of the teachers’ guide such that every school in the basic education system in each state is given enough copies for the use of teachers,” he added.
The Executive Secretary of National Educational Research Development Council, NERDC, Prof. Godwill Obioma, explained that the NVC as approved by the National Council on Education, NCE, in 2004 was to educate young Nigerians on their duties, rights as well as obligations to themselves and the society.
He added that ICPC and NERDC developed the Teachers’ Guide to assist teachers as implementers of the NVC, to acquire the knowledge as well as serve as a source of materials for the teaching of the new ideas.
“The Teachers’ Guide is expected to make the implementation of the NVC easier for teachers. It is meant to serve as a resource material for the effective implementation of the NVC,” Obioma further said.
Thats rubbish.
It is very lugubrious and appaling that jamb is not capable of handling their candidate. They ought to have made computer based testing (cbt) compulsary rather than reducing the scores of those that wrote paper test. I was personaly affected and i will be goin to Abuja to seek redress if nothing is done. I hearby use this medium to appeal to the educated elite, the affluents, the opulents and all those who seek justice in our country to come to our aid because the scripts were not properly marked; though some may not do well, but claim to have done theire best. But every body should not bear the brunt because not everybody was involvd in malpractice. So to save us the ignominy, the stress, the pains of being kept home till next year.PLEASE HELP US.
The Minister is looking for an excuse for having no placement for students in the few universities available. She confessed before the Exam that out of 1.2m candidates that wrote the exam, only 500,000 ll be admitted.
This is the only country in the world where citizens are denied the right to education.
Am so speechless with what i read here! How can 16,000 unified tertiary examination be cancelled all because some candidate are involved in exam malpractice… Dat is not an excuse at all. Use already av it in ur agendar to faill candidate if u av more dan d numbers u are in need of. D heads of those who are not involved in exam malpractice that u fail we by Gods grace punish u all.