KWASU’S NEW EXAMINATION STYLE: A BLESSING OR A CURSE? -Biyatife

The students and stakeholders of the Kwara State University were served with the greatest shock as their university’s most-priced jewel, or rather ‘second most-priced’ was considerably remodeled, with the ‘one-week exams’ turning ‘three-weeks’.

This semester, which officially opened on the 15th of August, 2016, got hit with the examination fever on Friday, 2nd , December, 2015 and this surprisingly did not leave until a few days to Christmas. This quintessential unorthodox Kwasu.

However, many questions linger on the lips of studnts and stakeholders:

• Has the University lost its grip on its ardent principle of ‘one week, no shaking?”
• Are the students now too many for the infrastructures available in the school (i.e: are students ratio to the infrastructures imbalanced)?
• Has the management finally answered the persistent plea of the students to re-examine the one-week examination policy?

The answers to these questions can only be answered by the actions of the management. It is evident in the fact that the management admitted a surprising 3,500 students. Considering the quantity of infrastructures on ground, it could be said that the university is not ready for such a figure yet. Due to the amount of gross imbalance in the ratio of students and lecture space, some departments are even stripped naked to the extent that they hold lectures underneath trees.

This article does not aim at building resentments or inciting anyone against the management, but to however tell to the readers that the university for Islamic development has its flaws but also its strengths. Many critics have adopted the occupatibending on of rumour-mongering, the latest of which attempts to give the university a bad image by claiming that the university wants only money from her students and would even set them off in the same proportion at which they were admitted.

This assertion was proven to be wrong by the University’s deliberate bending of her most sacred policy. Out of empathy and consideration, the university took a bend in her calendars to allow for more preparation from the students who were admitted few weeks to the day of examination. This act could be said to be an added star, a unique one, to the University’s chest.

However, when one peruses the other side of the coin, there are many more lessons to be learnt.