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September 23, 2024 21 mins
The Age Debate: How Nigeria's New Exam Rules Could Changethe future of education in Nigeria, it's impact and effect on the students and the society. Guest: Miss Bakare Priscilla (Educational Expert)
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to the Ara Currency Podcast, where will bring you
the latest news and in analysis on the issues the matters.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm your host Araconcy, and today we are tackling a
topic that is sparking a lot of debate across Nigeria.
The federal government recent decision to enforce an h limit

(00:37):
for students taking the Bussey and necronations as generated significant reactions.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Will break down what this means.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
For students, parents, educators across the country.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
We'll be right back after this short break. Kindly stay
tuned to Ara Courrency podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Welcome back to our Condition podcast. The Ministry of Education
set a new age requirement for students sitting for these
critical examinations, aimed to ensure that all the students of
the appropriate age are alleged.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Today who explore the rationally.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Behind this decision, the potential impacts on education and in
reactions from various state bolders. This policy have retired wating
consequences educational development in the country as we all know
that student taking this examination are.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Now going beyond the age of sixteen.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
No, we have something for graduate early from secondary school
within the age of.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Fifteen to do most aged age gred for.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Graduate from pre school now is from fifteen to sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
So this policy could.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Have in consequences of the educational system and for students
future understanding applications is crucial. We won't involve an education
in Nigeria. Let's start by looking at the specifics of
Disney age business policy.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
The government has decided that.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Only students who are at least eighteen years old by
the start of the exam year will be allowed to
take West Africancy in a second.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Discoare examination and the NECRO exams.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
This decision is set to align with the educational standard
and to help ensure the students academically and emotionally ready
for this examination. Joining me today on the podcast is
a graduate from the Favor Collective Education in State You
thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
My name is.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
I say hi to everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
So as an educational aspert, can you help us to
understand the child for this new policy on education.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Let me start by saying, I don't know what's reason
the federal Govt see for them to implement this kind
of policy.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
This age limits everything.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
But then from her own perspective, I would say this
age limit is not something beneficiar to everybody, especially the
female children in word science number one, a lady who
who goes to school, who wants to be educated, and
they add of fifteen sixteen, she graduated from secundary school.

(03:37):
You can't expect such child to wait in the house
for two years just because of this age policy. You
can't expect a child that does to wait for two
good years before she can enter into the university. Let's
take this as an expence. If she chooses a course
that she leads me five to seven.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Years, like medicine or lot, thank you.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
Like me say nor long because mostly female children't want
to be a medical doctor and not a lawyer and
so on. So did they choose a course that will
need them to lose five to seven years in school?
Do you expect short child to just enter into the
age of it?

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Please?

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Eighteen plus seven words twenty five twenty five years?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
What can need your king question?

Speaker 5 (04:25):
At age twenty five, a female child is graduating from
the university, which is not good just not then fusion
finishing at the age of twenty five, which is not
supposed to be at this at age of twenty twenty
two to still four, then even the seven years the
five to seven years course of the TA be talking

(04:45):
about after that to wait eight year before she can
go for service, to have to look for job. Age
limits for services even thirty years, you three thirty years.
You can say that this age limits policy of it
is not applicable to female children.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
So are you trying to sideline?

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Oh no, no, I'm must sidelining the male child.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
But from our own perspective even for the male for
the male child too, it is not advisive. You can't
expect a male child graduating from square the age of
twenty five twenty six to start looking for job or
money to cater for. Is our family that thank you
that after finishing secundaries or after finishing ny education level,

(05:31):
it is not certain they will see job immediately.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
Start you'll start me, thank you to start. Thank you.
So this limits policy of it is not applicable.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
I don't know if the federal government can help possibly
reverse it would be.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Very very grateful.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Will actually intended go for great new challenges.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
I don't know what the federal government see of the
reason why the implements this thing. Is it because they
want the children to be emotionally, psychologically and mentally fits.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
For the university education this thing is something we can do.
It is realistic.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
If you want a child to be mentally and psychologically
okay or academically okay, it is from the grassroots, not
the university, not from the university level or from the
universty days. It is from the grassroods. If you want
a child to be sound, yes, thenk you catch them young.
If you want a child to be sound and okay,
you start from the grassroods, which is the permit and

(06:34):
the secondary level of education. We have so many even
even with the age limits. I'm just saying, even with
the age limits the federal government saying they should wait
for till they get to eighteen years of age, what
gives them the assurance that a child after getting or
after reaching that age limit of eighteen years would be

(06:56):
mentally and academically okay.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
In the university days.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Read they hear that at age eighteen a child shoot.
But then it is not as saying it is not
be cable to everybody. Everybody cannot be everybody.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
Cannot be shap At the same time, you can't expect
a brilliance you can smatch the jump and why I
can netw examination, I mean, can.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
You go yes, that they go. You can't expect to be.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
Delayed at all, and I all the morney now't expe Okay,
what do you want that kind of child to do
within that period of two years? There's this thing, there's
this mentality in a shoot of nowadays, once they start
counting money, like when they start working and they can work,

(07:47):
they can end money on your own.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
To talk to them about educational it's not possible.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Okay, So let's look at it from this perspect Okay,
within a period of being at lessive finishing through our
leaders and then we team to clock team to get admissions.
Think that would I used to learn its fill be
little in the funeral, developmental country or other increase crimeriates.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
It will increase crimearies, talks me now, it will.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
Increase crime rates in the sense that, just like I
said before, there's this mentality that appen to you. Once
I am using my hand to count to money like yes,
but salary, and you expect me to go back to school. Dear,
let's be if you talk to me about education, your response,
I will give you this. Am I not going to
school to make money too? And I'm making the money

(08:44):
now outside school? Without even going to school. I am
making money, so it's worth increase crime rates. And that
is why we have kidnapping. We have everything. Let's take
this kidapping case for example from our own perspective.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I didn't do these people.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
These kid nappers are not being stopped. I haven't been
there being stopped, so they don't have issue with their
JAMP and and the results is kidn favorite to reduce
school yes, thank you.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
Everything's doing something like that. They won't have the initiaty
towards to go into.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Crime.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
From into crime, they will have the.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
Initiative to to give up, to do this, to to
steal and everything. But because the after education, after they
and everything, they have to wait for JAMP results.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
They have to wait admission, they have to do this,
they have to do that. So I'm true say there's
no point being to school. Diary have illustration to give up.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Lely that graduated at injury of being and I'm planning
to recollect the name of the university from accounting with
first class I did of nineteen for university with various
memor US award for that kind of a girl. The
graduated adage of nineteen said she was on the category
of this new education. That means during the periods she

(10:12):
left the congres, Let's say she lefts the congry a
d sixteen date of adage of fifteen and she gartten
her date of probly she went to private university, so
as she has to wait for extra for two years
to talk seen and now she's graduating from university a

(10:33):
day of nineteen, which for back numerous award in wom
are shining those that are off the age that are
both the age limits. So I went to say that
this new policy first children that are naturalists brilliant and
because if we still she keep them at tool really

(10:53):
have the fact their mental being and the intellectual development.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
Yes two, just like illustration, you give sexty girls graduated
with Fresco the age of nineteen years. Let's see after
the girl graduated from secondary school, maybe at the head
of fifteen she was she was told to stay at
all you did, then she will clock to the yes'

(11:19):
clock eighteen years. Okay, if the girls should go back
to school, you do think when she graduates she be
able to graduate with that first class that she will
not her ladies of nowadays, or let me say women
of nowber days or youth of nowadays, especially the females

(11:42):
mm hmm. Most day the once they finished secondary school,
if your parents have the capability of sending them to
the mediately they shoot because with what is stranging now
if you ask such child to stay at two ebeny
or repomassive to go into prostitution and they start disbeing

(12:03):
their parents in the house, yes, becoming proud and so on.
So it's up effects on their intellectual being and their
mental intellectual being. And it says that when I finished
country school and graduated from secondary school, my brain is
s towards it's still.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Up very shack if I go back to school.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Did you think the mind sub bread will follow me
back to school?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
But I feel like the government are trying to like
create space vocational development welled help for example. Now within
that each period from sixteen to eighteen, probably vocational schools
Learnd and Craft of different vacational courtees out there would
also provide money after university so that when the university

(12:55):
could be like sight before the do you see given
initiity going back to school soon they started making money.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
That I was saying if the governments or the federal
governments is they're trying to maybe they want to include
the vocational training. You can include vocational training even where
the students are in university. You can make it a
course for the air composed recourse.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
I think in some politeching that is polytechn not in
all universities, not in all college of education.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
That's so, make it a composed recourse for their vocational training.
Make it a composed recourse for them in all suits
if you want them to learn it, if you want
them to have a trade that they can use as
the site of after education, even if they don't have
the money to establish themselves after their university left everything,

(13:48):
they have the knowledge of that trait of that vocation.
That is a cool So they should make it a
cost for them, not as an excuse for those students
to wait in the house to the clock. That so,
please should make it the course for them, not as
an excuse for to wait because they want to. And
let you treat about in for your or that you

(14:10):
can't use our money. I had any money to buy
clothes to buy let to buys you to buy standard
to buy everything.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Get the needs for education and not really same important
to them. And so you know it's not that. Let's
be example, now you have some in just unlucky entering
the university. For example, you write JAM your first time JAM,
JAMP you second time. So and you're going for this

(14:38):
high take courses like missing law for engineering courses that
you have to reach estra and then you have to
reach a certain cop for example, for JAM you have
to your call have to start from three hundred and
a go for you to get these courses and then
leaving after edything from university psychology credidios.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Then let's pay you.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
So enough to give intention of studying the law to
study this I think courses university I used to have
to have. You have to you have to have this
iMac and that your intellectual capability within the period which
you're mean to be studying for them, that would give

(15:21):
you the I paid with for in university.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Now you're going to lend work and do some other
things and.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
When there's have time to start really really studying, to
become to engrossed with the money you started making.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
So do you feel comfortable with this kind of illustration
and I just kill having to having to you're having
intention of.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Studying the High Court in university and then instead of
preparation because even you're not guaranteed that you're beginning the
course at West right now, you have to read extra
two years, and then intellect your capability would because you
can't be reading for just thirst two years coming to study.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Do you feel like it is going to be the
same as at the time they left second vision?

Speaker 5 (16:07):
It will not be the same because she is already
learning treat and it's already any more. But then this
thing is applicable to children that are from educated family
exactly from give her from a very highly educated family,
you have the truths even when you're learning the tread

(16:30):
the ring. Kids, you know, yeah, you need to go
back to school. Well let's come to let's let's think
of those that are not from yes, their class, thank you,
the now class. Those that don't have their podcasts are
not from educated family. But then they have been very
sharp and they see who to sponsor them at that

(16:52):
particular period they finished second and it's able to sponsor
them particular moment to ask them with still they get
to eating years. What if I'm not I'm not praying
for that. What if their sponsorer died or travel out
of the country is not interested or it's not even interested.

(17:12):
You get after waiting for two good years. Just some
cases that even without this gag limit of feteen years,
so we still have to wait, and just some that
just sponsor. I will be like, once you're done with
secondary school, make sure that's the same ye or the
following year.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
You try your best to enter into the universe.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
When ten years you spoil their career, You've run their life.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
That's true.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
It is not it is not applicated. Not if they
can reverse, please they shoot.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Okay, thank you miss McCart color for a contribution to
the podcast for parents and and getting this new landscape.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
You have a few things to keep in mind regarding this.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Limit for second quest amminition that's paid way into the university.
Start planning elie to ensure students are prepared by the
time you reach the aligage next plot and educational opportunity
during this waiting period like vocational educational education and other things.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
That will keep these you can I'll keep your children.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Engage also busy waiting period, and also stay informed about
any other fubdas or change or change you to the
policy that different governments with that and you can always
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(18:37):
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Speaker 3 (18:54):
Your voice matters in this conversation, So on.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
This on this note, our lives also tay our guests
for today for contribution so far regarding this educational policy.
And so today we have discovered the new limits or
West Afflican dimination that were and then the National Termination
Council that is eco's potential in part on students and
the misrations.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
That have received so far the federation. In fact, the former.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Presidential perian for the last general election, that is Allagat
Kabubaka is also kicking against this new policy.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
And we also explore the cases of the.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Student graduating from the private university age of nineteen this
first class in accoumpaign. And we also heard from our
guests That'scrocilia on our own opinion contribution to this podcast
and educational as pert as this policy rose out, It's
important to stay informed and adaptive. The future of our
students depends on our way we have get these changes together.

(19:59):
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Speaker 1 (20:44):
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Speaker 3 (20:51):
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Speaker 2 (20:52):
Aracon, and today we are tackling a topic that's parking
a lot of debate across Nineria, the federal government's recent
decision to enforce an h limit for students taking the

(21:13):
Bassy and Nickel examinations as generator significant reactions. Will break
down what this means for students, parents, and educators across
the country. We'll be right back after this short break.
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