Education Results: From Sick Bed to Death Bed

Monday, January 30, 2023 | 30 Views |

There was a time when education was on its sick bed. The powers that be tried to feed it intravenously and do all sorts of surgery to revive it through commissions, computer labs and juggling officers, but it got worse and worse until it became comatose.

Then it was moved from the general ward onto the death bed. It is then that the powers that ought to be waded in to fire the proverbial salvos to whoever doesn’t have their own salvos.

JC Results are out. Once more they continued the aggressive uglification of the national education landscape. It seems strangely that the system keeps churning out less-than-stellar students by the thousands.

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