Government schools are perpetual underperformers, and this regime is now hiding this crucial fact.
If we are too ashamed to dissect why government schools are faring worse, then we are depriving ourselves of the policy tools we urgently need to address our education rot arising out of disparities?
If exam results are irrelevant, then why are we having exams in the first place?
Transparency is a golden key to reform our decaying public schools where the poor call sanctuary.
Classroom performance has very little to do with standard variance as raised by NECTA.
If they did, then why have a single national exam? NECTA is raising the storm but has no answers to the real issues.
Transparency rather than opacity leads to curative measures to those who are systematic disadvantaged by institutional injustices. Ultimately, it is the plight of the poor, which the Ministry of Education is attempting to buttress under the carpet. So, it is the indigent educational backwardness will not be given the attention it urgently requires.
We can not imagine transparency of exam results having zero public value!
If what NECTA is saying is true, then NECTA must be dissolved because it has lost its mandate.
What NECTA fails to grasp is the fact that it is there to standardize the quality of education at the national level despite a disparity of its access. However, if a national academic standard is immaterial, then why NECTA is needed in the first place?
Why spend a lot of money to upkeep NECTA if national standardisation is of no value?
As a rule of thumb, transparency in conduct of public service is not a matter fir bureaucrats to decide, but it is a matter of fundamental nature!
We need every year to know the top 10 performers and 10 basement underperformers if we are ever to assess
The minister for education must be ashamed of himself for concurring with NECTA that rewarding academic excellence through public acknowledgement is of no national value!