Paying for academic grades

Well, our parents and those before them were very passionate about their studies. Infact, those days, reading and discovering new things was just like a lifestyle to some folks. Dad and my teachers had told me about interesting stories of iconic figures like sir Isaac Newton who remained celibate through out their lives because of their unrivalled devotion to learning, knowing and doing more.

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But today, Due to the huge menance of social media and screen addiction, it seems as if the larger majority of the younger generation don't care about anything that has to do with books anymore, even though some of them would claim to be students. Lol.

I know of some male students in the University who could maintain a standing position for more than an hour, watching a game of football in an overcrowded viewing center . Strangely enough, they would find it extremely difficult to sit down and read their books for fifteen minutes. Some might even fall asleep and before the end of fifteen minutes. Lol

I have a friend who could watch movies for more than three hours without even going to get something to eat. But when it's time for studies, she would be complaining about hunger before it's twenty minutes.

Some of such students probably take studies as a waste of time. So, they tend to look for the easy way out when it comes to thier academics. At the end, they resort to paying certain amount of money to some unscrupulous lecturers in exchange for good grades.

By the way, University lecturers in my parts of the world are poorly paid, while others are just greedy and see this as an avenue to make extra earnings apart from their salaries. Oh, lest I forget, University lecturers in my country have recently embarked on a strike action since the federal government have repeatedly failed to pay them the allowances they were owed.

Even though there are textbooks and lots of materials both online and offline that are better alternative, a lecturer might insist that only those students that purchase his own lecture notes would pass his course. A lecturer might decide to sell a copy of a lecture note for like $2. This amount multiplied by a student population of say 500 could fetch him a staggering sum of a thousand dollars!

Sometimes a corrupt lecturer would give the impression that no matter how much you studied hard for his course, you'd never come out with an "A"or even a "B". He doesn't have to announce this directly to the class, you'd definitely be informed by his former students. "If you want to pass his course, this is the thing to do". Your predecessors would tell you.

So, of you are an hard-working student, you would have no choice then to tow the line because you'd be shocked when you see a "C "or most times a "D" in a course you know you could easily pass with an "A".

What's worse is that you can't even report such unscrupulous lecturers to the university authorities. As a matter of fact, the university regulating bodies are aware of this shameless acts perpetrated by their lecturers, just like everyone else including the parents and the government. But sadly, there's nothing anyone could do about it as it as now become part of the tertiary educational system.

Anyway, such students that mostly engage in "sorting lecturers " for grades ( as it is popularly called in the country) came into the University same way. Most of them never met the minimum requirement for a successful admission. So, they "bought" the admission by paying money to some corrupt top University officials in the management. It then means that the only way they could bear in this new but tough academic environment is by paying some lecturers for good grades in order cover up.

This might continue to happen from their first year up to the final level, since they lacked the intellectual ability to compete favourably with other students. No need to mention that most of such students came from families where money is not a problem.

There was this female student whose parents wanted her to be a doctor at all course even when she was not bright, just because of the prestige associated with having a child who's a medical doctor. Through money power, her parents were able to secure an admission for her into the faculty of medicine. She was immediately withdrawn from the faculty after virtually failing all the courses in level one.

The medical certificate is definitely not a certificate that could be bought with money unlike the others . This is because it's all about saving lives, and if you are not good at it,then you are not fit to be a doctor. Money definitely cannot buy life. Thank God beautiful sis @DocLayla passed her first exams with flying colors and is now preparing for her first professional medical examination.

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