OAU EXAMINATIONS: A NECESSARY EVIL! The conditions OAU students are being subjected to, either directly or by necessary implications, before, during and after examinations, I say boldly- No high preponderance of their contemporaries, in the same equivalence and measure do experience, in their various varsities. In what follows, I shall observe both the physical and mental states of the Great Ife students, especially when preparing for examaminations. Meanwhile, the quiddity of this writing is to arouse the constitutional consciousness of Great Ife students and all amici cureae involved, rather than to utter vituperative billingsgate on the most coveted standard. Apparently, the systemic patterns of OAU examinations, in its unique and inherent capacity to inflict pain to students, have been regarded by many as necessary evil. The mental agony for survival during examination is, simply beyond questions, a horror! I conclude that the OAU examinations, with its full panoply of concomitant physical and mental tortures, is impermissibly cruel! and the overestimated standard of grading, is unacceptably brutish,... when judged from the most acceptable, contemporary standard of decency. This assertion may be heavily challenged without adequate statistics. Hence, by way of exposition, some right thinking students of OAU have embarked on the odyssey of research. Parts of their findings revealed that about 15, 000 OAU students, both diploma, undergraduate and even postgraduate inclusive, are involved in suicide jerking. Some even read overnight, sleep examination venues waiting for the paper man- like prisoners on the death roll waiting for hangman. OAU examinations questions, a comparative analysis revealed, when compared to other contemporaries, are far specialized. Any body, that visits the OAU health centre to witness the way students collapse, will be swift to concur with me. My position is very cloudless; OAU system of Examinations has unique and inherent capacity of inflicting tortures on students; even where no such torture would yield over no good but a 40D in BCH. I shall go further to examine the wordings of Section 34(1) CFRN 1999: Every individual is entitled to respect of the dignity of his person, and accordingly; (a) No person shall be subject to torture, inhuman and degrading treatment. Again, the gravamen of this writing is to consider, whether; 1: The above provision has been indirectly or necessarily circumvented by the very nature of OAU examinations, in its full panoply of concomitant physical and mental tortures, regarded to be impermissibly cruel! and the overestimated standard of grading, considered as unacceptably brutish, when judged from the contemporary standard of decency. 2) In the spirit of interpreting section 34(1)a, such treatments need be direct, or could be consequential. 3: It is actionable or not. Reservations, addenda and reports, channeled towards intellectual romance, welcome. All the very best! ||AJIBADE, Quadri Olukayode Plato||
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:17:18 +0000
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