Stakeholders complain against NECO result
BY DAYO ADESULU
PROPRIETORS, parents,students and other stakeholders have been complaining against NECO results for this year’s Junior School Certificate Examination (JSCE/Basic).
According to a communiqué issued on Friday October 21 by the Association of Proprietors of Private Secondary Schools Oyo state chapter, about 34 proprietors converged in Ibadan and reviewed the 2011NECO JSCE results.
Everyone at the meeting presented the complaints of their schools and four main lapses were identified.
According to the Communiqué the 2011 NECO JSCE results “failed to differentiate between the outstanding and the average students. Even students who had won laurels at state, National and international competitions were not spared from this atrocious and disheartening results.”
The second error in the NECO results is that “it does not reflect the inclusion of the continuous Assessment of scores from JSS1 to JSS 3 of the students.”
Thirdly, the communiqué said that “the results of creative and cultural Arts CCA which is supposed to be a combination of fine art and music and offered as a single subject were released as separate subjects I.e.( i) Creative Arts (ii) music in some schools while in other schools they were released as a single subject.”
Fourthly, the proprietors added that “in some subjects all the students had the same grade. This is totally unrealistic.”
The proprietors said parents have been trooping to their schools expressing dismay at the result s. The parents have been saying that NECO should make the scripts of the students available for cross checking a suggestion which the proprietors described as “a welcome development.”
The proprietors disclosed that they had earlier met with the zonal coordinator of NECO in Ibadan and complained against the results of the 2009 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) which was full of errors and omissions.”
The communiqué which was signed by Chief Mrs Dupe Adeleke (president) and Mrs Folake Osunkunle (Secretary) added that it is in the best interest of NECO to give urgent and appropriate treatment to the complaints by the stakeholders as the integrity of the public examination body is at stake.
According to Mrs Lilian Bademosi, a parent whose children were affected by the poorly compiled results, “we parents are not happy and we have been visiting the schools calling on the owners to take necessary steps to sort out all the issues involved so that our children can get correct results that reflect their ability.
The parents Teachers Association at the National level should also look into this matter. Of recent we can see series of lapses in the performance of WAEC and NECO and we want government to take action so that the integrity of our public examination is not compromised.”
Miss Yinka Ajibola, 13, said she sat for the JSCE at Orita mefa Baptist Model School Ibadan, she said she was affected by the poor compilation of results by NECO. “I am in support of all that our parents and proprietors have said. NECO should bring out our scripts so that we can cross-check these results.”
