The National Teachers Institute (NTI) has resolved a complaint by Alli, a post-graduate student who has written a single exam multiple times over the institute’s Iwo centre’s claim that he was absent on exam days.
The Osun State branch of the institute invited the student to its Osogbo office for a meeting on Thursday, where the problem was addressed.
This followed a report by FIJ on Wednesday detailing how Alli had been made to write an exam two times and was about to register for the same exam the third time.
Management leaders at the state office subsequently issued a statement of results to Alli, dated January 18, 2024. Mumini Kayode Adeleye, the acting state coordinator, signed the statement.
The bearer “has completed his Programme in 2021. The final result is being awaited,” the letter partly read.
“I thank FIJ for what you have done. They invited me to Osogbo yesterday. I met Dr. Olaniregun Funmi there too,” said Alli. “They explained that I could have written to them about the problem the first time it happened, but I let them know that I did what the centre manager advised.
“We discussed at length. People at the national headquarters also intervened and gave necessary directives. I now have my statement of results while awaiting the final result.”
Alli had enrolled in a one-year post-graduate diploma in education (PGDE) course at the Iwo study centre of the institute in Osun State in 2021. When he checked his second semester results in 2022, he was told he had no record of attendance for an exam with course code PDE716 and titled ‘Supervision and Inspection’.
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He took the course again, but he was told in 2023 that the records still showed he was absent from the exam, even when his friends, with whom he wrote the paper, could confirm his participation.
FIJ also found that such issues had been recurring at the centre for years, forcing several students to retake some of the courses they had earlier written.
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