The University of Lagos (UNILAG) management has announced the suspension its General Studies (GST) examination for the first semester of the 2023/2024 academic calendar.
Adejoke Alaga-Ibraheem, the head of the university’s communications unit, acknowledged that there was unruly behavior at one of the exam rooms utilized for the paper. She said that the students who fainted were promptly revived by the emergency medical technicians on duty.
According to a report by Premium Times, an unspecified number of students of the university were injured, while others fainted on Tuesday while rushing to enter the examination at the computer-based test centre of the Distance Learning Institute (DLI) on the campus.
Mrs Alaga-Ibrahim said the university is not happy about the situation “but we are already working on addressing it.”
She explained that the university is evaluating the situation to come up with an improved system.
In a statement announcing the suspension of the examination, the management said the decision followed a review of “the issues that have affected the conduct of the examination in the last two days.”
“Please note that all inconveniences caused by this suspension are deeply regretted, and a new date/schedule for the GST examination will be shared appropriately,” the statement read.
Meanwhile, the Parents Forum of the university also reacted to the development in a statement appealing “to everyone to please be calm and allow an amicable resolution to be achieved,” Vanguard reports.
“Please know that we are not happy with the experiences that some of our children went through to write their GST examination yesterday (Tuesday). We register our outright displeasure and wish to use this medium to appeal to parents to please calm down and allow appropriate administrative measures to be applied to rescue the situation,” the statement read.
“Please remember that members of this executive board were first parents before we became members of the exco, so we also feel the same pains, and frustrations that you feel. We are all not happy about this. But we appeal to everyone to please be calm and allow an amicable resolution to be achieved.”
