CONTINENTAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION RESEARCH
Science and Education Development Institute
DOI: 10.5897/UJ-CJEducRes
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ACHIEVING ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN NIGERIA: THE ROLES OF STAKEHOLDERS
DOI: 10.5897/UJ-CJEducRes.17.009.1 | Article Number: FD1F583 | Vol.8 (1) - June 2015
Author: Abefe-Balogun Bola
Keywords: Academic Performance, Excellence, examination, stakeholders, roles, school
The continual seasons of mass failure either in internal or external examinations by majority of pupils/students in public schools is worrisome in sane clime. This writer believes that elementary school level forms a stronger architectural foundation upon which secondary and tertiary levels academic learning outcomes are built. Although performance records of pupils/students in examinations conducted by both Universal Basic Examination Council and State Primary Education Boards are not accessible but those of West African Examination Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB) showed rising tide in students’ abysmal performance. Contributory factors to poor academic performance include immaturity of pupil/student as a result of parent’s pressure to have underage children in secondary or tertiary school level and by extension producing uncultured and timid graduates without needful knowledge, skill and character for gainful employment; poor expression skills, poor coverage of curriculum by teachers as well as carefree attitudes of government and some parents too. The fault is in the people who are not alive to their integrity and obligations. Why? Causes of poor academic performance and tips to excel in examinations were offered. Therefore the paper looks at the roles of stakeholders in achieving academic excellence, calling for collective saving actions and responsibilities to check the ugly trends because it takes a whole village to train a child.
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