ANA blame WASSCE candidate's mass failure on social media
WAEC had last week released the result of Nov/Dec 2017 WASSCE result with only 25% of the students recording passed marks in the exam. Reacting to the result during his election in Abakaliki, the new Chairman of ANA in the state, Mr. Richard Inya regretted that students and exam candidates prefer social media to their books and called for change of attitude to arrest the situation. “Young people should go back to their books, ICT has negatively influenced them. They now place much emphasis on the social media rather than their books which distract them. With our lineup prgrammes, I hope their performances will improve very well.
“At various levels, we have launched many programmes to reawake students’ reading culture. This progarmmes will reinvigorate reading culture in the country”, he said. On her part, lecturer at Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi state, Professor Akachi Ezeigbo who conducted the election corroborated the state Chairman. “Books have been distributed to students by this association but you can take a horse to the water, you can’t make him drink . We are only hoping that young people will respond to all these efforts being made to get them reading “We need to get these children reading as it was in the past. I believe that one of the reasons why education standard is falling and people are doing so bad in exams is because they are not reading. Most of them will watch videos or computer games, they are not doing the kind of thing that will promote their learning of English Language and being competent”, she said.
