NCOPSS Laments Mass Failure In Exams

The Kebbi chapter of All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), has identified the cause of the mass failure in the 2011 WAEC and NECO examinations.

The chapter attributed it to the lack of adequate qualified teachers.

Alhaji Aminu Umar, the President of the chapter, said this on Saturday in Birnin Kebbi in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He warned that if qualified teachers were not recruited, failure in external examinations would persist.

He expressed regret that HND graduates were recruited as teachers in spite of their lack of the professional competence to teach.

He said teaching was a profession like any other field of human endeavour.

According to Umar, people who lack the basic teaching requirements and are not trained as teachers have infiltrated the teaching profession.

He, therefore, urged stakeholders in the education sector in the state to look into the issue.

The president said recruitment of teachers should be based on possession of professional qualifications such as the NCE or Bachelor of Education degree.

He said ANCOPSS had yet to access the performance statistics of the 2011 WAEC and NECO results released recently.

Umar however told NAN that from available information at the disposal of the conference, the state did not perform well in both examinations.

He expressed concern that students see teaching as an alternative means of making ends meet when they could not get other jobs.

He said students preferred to study commercial courses such as accounting, business management or anything to do with finance for easy monetary gain.

Umar commended the government of Kebbi for providing conducive environment for teaching and learning in the state.