₦airaland Forum

When Education Becomes a Tool of Control
The idea that a government would intentionally cause large numbers of students to fail feels counterintuitive. Education is widely recognized as a driver of national development. Yet history shows that in certain political and economic contexts, mass academic failure can serve the interests of those in power. It can consolidate authority, maintain class hierarchies, and weaken civic resistance.

In Nigeria today, the question is no longer whether this could happen the recent WAEC and JAMB controversies suggest it already has, under the cloak of “technical glitches.”

When failure stops being an accident and becomes policy, education turns from a ladder of hope into a weapon of control.
In Nigeria today, the mass failures in WAEC and JAMB are not just statistics they are a political message, an economic strategy, and a warning. If exam bodies can quietly erase futures with a “technical glitch,” then the question is no longer about who is smart enough to pass, but who is powerful enough to let you succeed.
Full article
https://www.learnable.fun/blog/when-failure-becomes-policy-why-a-government-might-be-interested-in-massively-failing-students.

logan2:
When failure stops being an accident and becomes policy, education turns from a ladder of hope into a weapon of control.
In Nigeria today, the mass failures in WAEC and JAMB are not just statistics they are a political message, an economic strategy, and a warning. If exam bodies can quietly erase futures with a “technical glitch,” then the question is no longer about who is smart enough to pass, but who is powerful enough to let you succeed.
Full article
https://www.learnable.fun/blog/when-failure-becomes-policy-why-a-government-might-be-interested-in-massively-failing-students.

your article is full of unnecessary conspiracies

True, these people have discovered that the eyes of the youths are now widely open. They tried it with social media, it was unsuccessful now they are looking at restricting the youths from acquiring quality education. They can no longer fool us the way they fooled the older generation, which we are suffering presently. Let's fight for the future generations. Nigeria shall be great. We can even achieve this without breaking or separation