Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary
Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, has warned heads of public secondary schools in
the state to stop engaging their students in 'labour exercise' or menial work
just before the commencement of their examinations.
Ukah gave the warning after rounding off his
state-wide tour to monitor the conduct of 2019 promotion examination across the
state, which ended last Friday.
He expressed shock that students who were scheduled
to take their examinations by 9a.m. were being engaged by some school
authorities in menial labour exercise before writing the examinations, noting
that that would stress out the children and negatively affect their performance
in the examination due of fatigue.
The commissioner, however, advised the principals
of the affected schools to come up with a better strategy to engage the
students in labour exercise at the beginning of each term or after the
examination.
Ukah also cautioned school heads to desist from
collecting money from students to buy sheets of paper to write examinations,
advising that the students should rather be made to provide them for the school
authorities to stamp for authentication.
The education commissioner, who also frowned at the
shortage of question papers for examination in some of the schools, directed
that it should be investigated and a report be sent to his office this week.
Relatedly, Ukah charged heads of public schools in
the state to adhere strictly to approved guidelines in the conduct of
examinations in the state.
He gave the charge when he monitored the conduct of
the 2019 promotion examination in public primary and secondary schools in Isoko
North and Isoko South Local Government Areas last week.
At Aradhe Grammar School in Aradhe, Isoko North
Local Government Area, the commissioner frowned at the non-availability of
examination question papers as at 9:20 a.m. for an examination that was to
start at 9:00 a.m.
He therefore directed that examination supervisors
should be at the custody centres by 7a.m. to collect examination question
papers for timely distribution to different schools.
The case of late commencement of the examination
was the same when Ukah visited Iluelogbo Grammar School, Owhelogbo, in the same
local government area.
However, he cautioned the principal of the school
on late commencement of the exercise, noting that such delay might give room
for malpractice, including leakage of the examination question papers.
The commissioner's team also visited Emiye Girls
Grammar School and Emore Grammar School both in Oleh, where he commended the
principals of the schools for the timely conduct of the examination and urged
them not to relent in their efforts in bringing the much needed development in
the education sector.
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