WAEC: Three Killed, 200 injured as examination hall collapses

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THREE pupils, including a girl, were killed and hundreds injured on Wednesday when a building in which they were writing the West African Examination Council School Certificate examination (WASCE) collapsed on them.

 

The incident occurred in Alpha Academy, a private secondary school in Mararaba, Donga Local Government Area of Taraba State.

Some 560 candidates were writing the examination in Alpha Academy. Many of them complained of the cracks before the building came down on Wednesday.

Poly Expels 74 Over Examination Malpractice

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No less than seventy four students of Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, have been expelled by the institution over examination malpractices. The institution’s spokesperson, Mr Mustapha Oshiobugie, disclosed this in an interview in Auchi on Wednesday.

He said the affected students were allegedly involved in various examination misconducts during the 2011/2012 academic session. Oshiobugie said the expelled students cut across all departments of the polytechnic. In a related development, four Higher National Diploma (HND) II students had during the session been expelled over results falsification.He reiterated the readiness of the institution to stamp out all forms of examination malpractices.

JAMB introduces three options for 2013 UTME

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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has introduced three options for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates.

Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, Registrar of JAMB, said this in Bwari, Abuja, on Wednesday when the House of Representatives Committee on Education visited him on an

oversight function.

Ojerinde listed the options as Paper and Pencil Testing (PPT), Dibu Based Test, where questions would be presented on computers and answers would be on paper and Computer Based Testing (CBT) where both questions and answers would be done on computer.

Ojerinde stated that candidates were at liberty to choose one of the three options in the 2013 UTME.

The registrar said that the most advantageous part of the CBT was that candidates would get their scores few minutes after writing the examination on their GSM cell phones.

“The internet age has come to stay with us hence as actors in the new age, you cannot afford to stay on the fence, you must be prepared to join the train or else you are left behind,” Dibu said.

He urged candidates to study hard for the 2013 UTME, adding that consistent hard work was the panacea to success in any examination.

Earlier, the Chairman of the House Committee on Education, Ms. Rose Oko, said the members were on a visit to the board because of the importance of education to the society.

“The examination process is very key and strategic in education as well as the sanctity of the examination,” she stressed.

Oko commended the board for its quick release of the 2012 UTME results and urged it to sustain the tempo.

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