THE West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has commended Governor Olusegun Mimiko administration of Ondo State over the conduct of incidence-free public examinations in the state.
Commissioner for Education, Dr Pius Osunyikanmi, said this during the inspection of 57 projects renovated by the Governor at St Peter’s Unity Secondary School, Akure.
This came as the state government reviewed upwards the scholarship and bursary awards to students of the state origin.
It equally approved the establishment of Overseas Scholarship Scheme for PH.D and other specialised post graduate programmes.
The scheme, which commences from 2011/2012 academic session, will be an annual award for 30 beneficiaries covering tuition fees, books and accommodation.
According to Osunyikanmi “WAEC specifically praised the state government on the last Senior Secondary Certificate Examination as the best organised in the recent years in terms of organisation and conduct. The Ministry of Education was able to achieve this feat through various steps taken to make a clean break from the past.
What we did was to prepare the schools and ensure their strict adherence to the rules governing the conduct of such examinations. Moreover, we made concerted efforts to stamp out incidence of malpractices in all forms at the so called ‘miracle centres’ and they have almost been completely eradicated” .
The Commissioner added that such centres had earlier been identified and sanctioned while the Supervisors found culpable during the clean-up exercise were given the appropriate punitive dose
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