Uninspiring at if I’m being modest

Wawu

whippersnapper:
you people are beginning to overestimate this england and i dont like it. We beat australia wetin be england. Is it because of lauren james. My favourites to avoid is japan, sweden, france, every other person go collect

Fingers crossed
I really want them to go all the way

Air and see

Lol is Obi still in the conversation?

Khyrvxjzy:



bro dats good na
u want socialist

Buhari was a socialist And look where things are
The point is there’s no perfect system

For ease in transmission

Helper1000:
England no dey play anything baba... make una rest

Fingers crossed that we’ll do well

Well

The man is a capitalist

Tinubu is a full blown capitalist

Bloody capitalist

Don’t ask me

Good
But they should have topped the group to avoid England in the next round

Bloody capitalist

Lol

Ok ok

Always the Sahel region

Bow and leave lol

wharlz:
Bro O level(NECO WAEC) is a scam, 85% of secondary schools in Nigeria engage in exam malpractices in one form or the other (both public and private schools) students actually pay for what is termed logistics (expo). The only Exam that is fairly a true test of knowledge is (JAMB) and these so called students failed woefully. It tells a lot about the sorry state of our failing education system. You can't admit students scoring 140/400 (35%) and you expect them to do well. Forget WAEC and NECO. I believe what the government can do is to establish highly robust technical colleges for this students to acquire skills or learn trade. University education should be for the serious minded.

I get your point but that doesn't adsorb the univerties of culpability, those students went through the Universities "aptitude test" post utme exams which is supposed to filter out the "unserious minded students" or is it just an excuse to collect money from prospective students?
At the end of the day the University is supposed to be an institution of teaching and learning and most public Universities rarely "teach"

Lol

Good riddance

Youths are becoming junkies faster than you can say jack

Keep bursting them till we clear up the city

EyeCumInPiece:

Bitter truth is that Democracy is for Oyibo and not for Africans. We are still too crude and primitive for Democracy.

Hey caveman

The young man has brought disrepute to the uniform

Don't see it happening sha

L

They've come again

Good good

Please dono

Why will the university withdraw the students for poor performance? These students studied and passed the secondary school certificate exams and passed JAMB exams and possibly passed the Unical post UTME before they were admitted to the university. It means they were qualified for university education.

During their stay in the university of Calabar, they were in various departments and faculties and were taking lectures on various courses by different lecturers in addition to other extra curricular activities of the university. What exactly did they fail to justify being withdrawn from the university? Did they fail in their attitude, knowledge or skills related to their chosen course of study?

There is the need to look into their failures beyond marks scored on cognitive tests and exams? Were they really taught well based on their learning abilities by their lecturers? Did the university provide them with the needed environment to truly learn?

If students are being punished for not passing exams, what should be done to lecturers for failing to help students to learn? Is teaching not about making someone to learn? If VCs, registrars, bursars, etc and lecturers were employed to make students learn and become useful to the society but the students were not made to learn, what should happen to them too?

Is learning and passing exams just the responsibility of students alone? Where is the place of teaching and non teaching staff in the process of learning by students? If no one else is held responsible for poor performance by students, then we should imagine a new future where the university will likely withdraw all students for poor performance but promoting their teachers for outstanding performance in their course of study.

There is the need for a system that other stakeholders in the education process will feel the pains of their students not passing their courses as well as the joy of their students passing well in their courses.

The primary mission of the university is the education of their students and the process of education involves teaching, learning and practicing of attitude, knowledge and skills. Where exactly did the students fail? In attitude, knowledge or skills or any of the combination?

What is the new future of these students who have been withdrawn from the university? What guidance is the university giving to them based on their identified capability? Are they all completely at zero in all the domains of learning or there are some ability areas in their announced disability?

The world has entered a new era with a new expression of education. We need to review our conventional product oriented education and seek a process oriented education. The final outcome examination is not enough to determine whether a student should remain or not. With the announced number of students withdrawn from the university for poor performance as the reason, the whole university should seek deep reflection on what is being done there. It is not good enough and the university is no longer adding to the growth of the society but to our down fall. Where are these students withdrawn to go to? Back to the secondary schools or to be thrown into the wider society where they will transfer their frustration to innocent citizens and institutions? What happens to the fees and charges that they paid? Will the university issue any form of certification to show what they passed in and what they failed to enable them seek admission elsewhere with more caring teachers and helpful environment or everything will be gone in one moment like this?

This is why the federal ministry of education and national universities commission under the federal executive council and the national assembly needs to look into the need for a National Universities Graduation Examination Council that should function like WAEC/NECO and empower universities to become students preparation institutions.

If the present announced withdrawal was in a secondary school, the students will have an option to take private lessons in their deficiency areas and register to take WAEC/NECO exams but in this case, the withdrawn students are surely frustrated and helpless. The worst situation is that they were not privately informed but have their names published on social media. How will they cope with the attendant discrimination in their families, communities and even other institutions as well as among their peers.

It seems our so called learner centered institutions of education are not learner friendly at all. The university needs to be re-examined again and seriously renewed if our children's future will depend on university education.

Dr. Raphael Ogar Oko is an academic Doctor
Former lecturer University of Port Harcourt
Doctor of Philosophy and Mathematics