FG’s educational chickens come home to roost
Examinations , which had been scheduled to commence on August 3. This decision, naturally, has polarised stakeholders in the educational sector.
He said: “Schools under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Education will not be opened on August 4 or anytime soon.Our schools will only open when we believe it’s safe for our children and that is when the situation is right, not when the incidence of the infection is going up in the nation. I just want to make it clear.
Said the eminent professor: “This sudden policy reversal is not good for the country. It is bound to create further confusion in the education sector, create disappointment and suspicion among parents, frustrate the students, and show to our development partners and Nigerians that the distortions and disarticulations in the sector are only getting worse.
Meanwhile, the Head of WAEC National Office in Nigeria, Patrick Areghan, has mentioned that Ghana shelved its plans to write the examinations in June because of Nigeria, while in Gambia, it took a presidential directive for the exams to be postponed. In a word, Nigeria is holding things down, despite having pulled out of the examinations this year.
It is indicative of the federal government’s unpreparedness and lack of astute policies that while other countries involved with WAEC have been able to chart a clear course on the conduct of the examinations, Nigeria remains locked in a policy tug-of-war concerning whether to write the exams or not.
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