Adequate funding and supervision have been identified as means to avert mass failure among students in external examinations.
An academic, Dr. Maurice Ogwu made this known in an interview with journalists in Port Harcourt.
Dr. Ogwu who enumerated the causes of students’ failure in exams to include lack of learning facilities and inadequate trained teachers.
“Students are not interested in studies they believe in magic, malpractice. Students press phones during lecture hours and in engage in discussions without paying attention during classes the level of study among the students is down. Most of our parents have little time for their children education. So the children are left to their whimp and caprices”, he noted.
Dr Ogwu who explained that the effects are enormous cited the menace of half-baked tertiary institution graduates confronting the nation as one of the consequences of a failed educational system.
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He noted that drastic measures should be employed such as training, and monitoring of teachers to prepare them to face the challenges.
“Government should fund the system by providing the basic amenities needed and they must also ensure that the facilities and teaching personnel are there.
Then the examination body should also avoid the pitfall that marred the previous exam which was the writing of English exam at odd hours,” he concluded.
The academic called on all stakeholders to save education in the nation.
