In the case of sex, if the lecturer fancies a student, he instructs her to pay for a room in a guest house or hotel where they meet. An average sorting sum begins from 20,000 for an A, 15,000 for a B and 10,000 for a C score.
Sorting is a covert word for a bribe given to or received by a lecturer to award undeserved marks to a student. That is the first major language a student is familiarised with on admission into any tertiary institution in Cross River State and indeed, many parts of the country. It is difficult to trace how it started but its usage is quite pervasive among students and lecturers..
“There is hardly anyone who has passed through the University of Calabar or Unicross in the past fifteen years without a brush with the sorting practice,” Janet Inyang Edet, a graduate of Unicross said. The lecturers most often do not collect the cash directly. They have agents in each class. If a teacher is taking three classes, he appoints three agents, one in each class. It is the agent who collects the money and hands it over to the lecturer. In the, if the lecturer fancies a student, he instructs her to pay for a room in a guest house or hotel where they meet. An average sorting sum begins from 20,000 for an A, 15,000 for a B and 10,000 for a C score.
However, it would be unfair to say that all the lecturers indulge in this unwholesome act. Some lecturers insist on the students doing the right thing. One example was Dr Akpan of the Political Science Department at Unical. His name so rang a bell for allegedly failing students and this writer visited him some years back in his office with the deluge of complaints from students.
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