Blame the Educational System, Not the Students; Insights from a Concerned X User
User Attributes JAMB Candidates' Poor Performance to Inadequate Education System, Countering Claims of Social Media's Negative Impact
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A Nigerian woman has voiced her objection to the notion that social media is to blame for the widespread failure in the JAMB UTME. On her social media, she dismissed the idea that social media and smartphones are responsible for the poor performance of JAMB candidates.
Uloma, known on Twitter as @ulxma, criticized the simplistic perspective often held by Nigerians towards complex issues. She pinpointed the deteriorating educational system as the real culprit behind the mass failures. “80% of students failed the JAMB, and yet the blame is cast on social media and smartphones. The laughably small government budget for education, the reality of poverty, or the flaws in the UTME system are all overlooked,” she asserted.
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She also mentioned that internet access and smartphone ownership in Nigeria are significantly low. “Nigeria’s internet penetration is extremely inadequate, and the proportion of Nigerians with smartphones is dismally low,” she stated.
Uloma shed light on several other factors that could be contributing to the problem, including insufficient funding for education, subpar infrastructure, low-quality teaching, and outdated curricula.
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In response, another user shared their personal experience with the examination’s technical issues. “At my daughter’s exam center, technical problems caused some students to be logged out prematurely, and some centers couldn’t conduct the exam at all. These are issues that JAMB needs to address, as they were also present during the mock exams,” user dominionaire_jc commented.
He observed that Nigeria’s education system has long been underdeveloped, with no significant efforts from the leadership to enhance it. “Should the government focus on rectifying the decay in the education sector by allocating 20% of the annual budget to it consistently, we would see a marked improvement in the quality of education,” he emphasized.
