The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) has released the results of the May/June 2021 in-school National Business Certificate (NBC) and National Technical Certificate (NTC) examinations.
The disclosure was made yesterday at NABTEB’s national headquarters in Benin, Edo State by the board’s Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe, who was accompanied by top officials of NABTEB.
She said: “For the purpose of onward progression of candidates to tertiary institutions, I wish to announce that 58,307 candidates, representing 72.96 per cent of the candidates that sat for the NBC/NTC examinations scored five credits and above, including English language and Mathematics. A total of 74,069 candidates obtained five credits and above, with or without English language and Mathematics, representing 92.68 per cent of the candidates that sat for the examinations.
“Comparatively, the performance is higher than the previous year’s 2020 in-school NBC/NTC examinations’ results, where 36,202 candidates, representing 62.99 per cent obtained five credits and above, including English language and Mathematics, and 48,597 candidates, representing 84.55 per cent of all candidates that sat for the examinations obtained five credits and above, with or without English language and Mathematics.”
NABTEB’s registrar also described examination malpractice as a global challenge to the conduct of public examinations, which she noted had gained international attention in assessment discourse. She revealed that the board had continued to apply strategies that ensured that malpractice was drastically reduced in its examination activities. Isiugo-Abanihe disclosed that in the last NBC/NTC examinations, 455 candidates, representing 0.54 per cent of the total number of candidates were involved in examination malpractice.
She pointed out that the Federal Government recognised the importance of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), along with Technology, Science and Mathematics, as tools for national development in the change agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari. The registrar noted that in this 21 century, the gap between the knowledge acquired in schools and the skills needed in the society was becoming more obvious, stressing that the traditional learning had fallen short of equipping students with the skills they needed to survive. She added that in today’s innovation-driven economy, workers needed different types of skills than those of the past.
