By Bida Elly David<\/p>\n
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Director General of the Central Equatoria State Ministry of General Education and Instructions has called for selection of professional teachers to undertake examination marking.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Luate William Alex\u00a0said this during the official announcement of the Central Equatoria State 2024\u20132025 academic year calendar.<\/p>\n “Previously, before I came, I heard sometimes university students had been co-opted. Marking is not easy as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The director said marking examinations requires technical skills from professionals in the field of teaching.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we are to mark it clearly, we have to mark it based on the contents and coverage as well as the measure of the questions,\u201d Luate said.<\/p>\n The state education director stated that hiring university students to mark examination papers will risk the production of results despite using the marking guide.<\/p>\n \u201cIf a university student is co-opted to do the marking, there will be an oversight; of course, there is supposed to be a marking guide to help markers do that, which is what we intend to accord,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n For this reason, the Director General emphasized that this time they were cautious about recruiting markers to do professional work.<\/p>\n Luate added that they are experiencing good speed in marking the current primary examination papers because the markers are real professional teachers.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have more than 500\u2013600 teachers who are doing the marking, and this time around we pressed very hard that professional teachers do the marking,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the director general of examinations for the ministry, Loro Nyigilo Luala, disclosed that they are soon finishing marking the certificate of primary education examination.<\/p>\n “We started marking the primary eight examination papers on the 8th<\/sup> of January and are still going on. We divided the marking of the subjects into two groups, comprising A and B,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n The examination director said the first group of markers has finished marking their papers within one week, and the second group is soon commencing.<\/p>\n \u201cGroup two is going to start marking, and they will also take one week, and the papers will go back to the control team to deal with the remaining work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n That means one week after now, there is a possibility of them finishing the marking for the results to be complied with and then later announced.<\/p>\n On his part, Angelo Paulino, the deputy examination director, said the invitation of states to participate in examination marking is done by the national ministry.<\/p>\n \u201cExamination in South Sudan, both primary and secondary, is under the national examination council, not the States,\u201d he clarified.<\/p>\n He added that the State Ministry of General Education and the National Examination Council (NEC) play different roles altogether.<\/p>\n \u201cThe state examination council only plays the duty to run the examinations, while the NEC is the body responsible for setting exams and its marking process,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Paulino emphasized that the national examination council is supposed to request markers from the state to undertake marking, not hiring university students.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is because the state is the one responsible for the schools and knows how to select their teachers,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n Moreover, Paulino echoed that Central Equatoria did not send teachers to mark the secondary certificate of education examination, saying they never received an invitation letter.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did not know where the National Examination Council gets their teachers from to mark the secondary examination papers,\u201d he wondered.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Cirisio Zakaria, the state minister of education, noted that their role is to ensure that learners receive quality education.<\/p>\n He announced that schools in his state would commence on February 5,\u00a0urging parents to prepare their children.<\/p>\n He also warned private schools against operating out of the academic year calendar of the Country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bida Elly David Director General of the Central Equatoria State Ministry of General Education and Instructions has called for selection of professional teachers to undertake examination marking. 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