{"id":9430,"date":"2020-07-02T07:43:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T07:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=9430"},"modified":"2020-07-02T07:43:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T07:43:20","slug":"corona-break-fg-making-plans-for-students-to-write-exams-says-education-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/02\/corona-break-fg-making-plans-for-students-to-write-exams-says-education-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona-Break: FG Making Plans For Students To Write Exams, Says Education Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, has said that contrary to reports that the Federal Government is making plans to reopen schools, it is only making plans for students in exit classes to write exams.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nwajiuba said this on Wednesday, during an interview on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, despite the shutting of schools as a result of the COVID-19, exams are critical for the academic progress of students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He, therefore, stated that the ministry presented its concerns to the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and plans are only being made for those who choose to write these exams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe presented to the PTF and by extension, the Federal Government, the plans by examination bodies to hold their exams. The exams are critical for how children progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe examined it and we felt that it is important to allow those examinations to take place but ahead of them taking place, it is important that those children who have not had the opportunity to revise their syllabus, should have an opportunity to go through that and have a revision class before the exams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost people who can afford it are already saying they want to be at home and go to the exams from home, that is terrific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut we understand the limitations of the average Nigerian because not everybody can afford laptops and devices and so if there are people who do have this access and feel confident that their children are ready for the exams, well, we are not compelling anybody to go to any school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we have done is make the facilities in our schools available,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou all know that education is on the concurrent legislative list and we\u2019ve asked that state government\u2019s that own these schools, to provide places to wash hands, check the temperature of the children constantly, have sanitisers in place. Private schools should be able to provide that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really not a compulsion, we are just making facilities available for those who want to take the exams\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May, the minister had said that the Federal Government was not ready to take the risk of reopening schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUntil we are sure that these children can go to school, return safely and not bring home with them, this COVID material, and infect people who are more susceptible to the disease than they are, then we are running a huge risk and god forbid that in our hurry, something happens to our children, I\u2019m not sure how anybody will be able to retrieve what would have been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo we are not taking that risk yet. We are going to prepare as much as possible, within the guidance that they (health authorities) offer us, working in conjunction with the World Health Organisation before we reopen schools\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, has said that contrary to reports that the Federal Government is making plans to reopen schools, it is only making plans for students in exit classes to write exams. Nwajiuba said this on Wednesday, during an interview on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today. According to him, despite the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Minister-of-State-for-Education.jpg?fit=500%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}