The
Provost of the College of Education Akamkpa in Cross River State,
Professor Anthony Owan Enoh has confirmed that 200 students of the
school have been penalized as a result of examination malpractices and
other unacceptable behaviour.
Giving
extent of how the school has been managed since the state government
renewed interest to revamp the school and hisown appointment over four
years ago, Prof. Enoh listed that these 20 students were expelled for
various unpardonable acts and the other 180 were given various levels of
penalty including rustication.
He
said, “We have also adopted other stringent measures that checked and
scared students from engaging in unethical as well as examination
malpractices. Within this period we were able to sanction 200
students.”
He
was explaining the college’s activities that have made it become the
cynosure of students and the general public at the NUJ press centre in
Calabar where he said from the once mud houses structure, it is now
completely restructured with modern infrastructure.
Although
the provost did not spell out the various offences committed by the
penalized students but he was bold to disclose that before the
assumption of duty by his management the school was renowned as centre
of cultism and gangsterism, beating other tertiary institutions in the
state such as University of Calabar and Cross River State University of
Technology (CRUTECH) to second place.
On
‘hand-outs’, the provost said that among measures taken to align with
the motto of the school, which is ‘Quality Education’, they have
outlawed the practice where teachers give their lectures as handouts to
their students. He said they no longer encourage that.
“We
have directed all College staff, particularly the lecturers, to
assembly their manuscripts for their different courses they teach into
bound monographs or volumes for first and semesters instead of handouts
and the school would help encourage students of such subjects to buy
them. This way, the works of the lecturers and their names would
outlive them and they would make a neater and acceptable profit.
“Though
this innovation met with initial resistance by the lecturers but now
they all have come to appreciate how neat and better this has turned out
because we compel students to buy the monographs. It has also enhances
the quality of our students.
“At
the end of every semester, the proceeds of sales of any monographs are
either shared by the College or given to the authors/lecturers that
compiled his works”, the provost explained.
He
said the policy of the school authority is to ensure quality education
imparted to students in theory and practice, adding that “this is why
the school has now become highly rated by the National Council on
Colleges of Education (NCCE) compare with few years ago.”
As
a result of this, the provost said their students that have several
‘carry overs’ are not allowed such to proceed to teaching practice in
order to safeguard the name of the school, explaining that they usually
have them retake certain courses and exams. “We would then send them to
our in-house primary and secondary schools to practice.”
Prof.
Enoh also disclosed that in order to assist the indigent students of
the school who were unable to pay their fees, the school authority
decided to engage many of them as student -staff at monthly salary of
N5000 to help keep the green and clean environment or in the many
ongoing building projects.
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