Conference Marking: If you are too happy, don't mark and if you are angry, don't also mark. Coordinator urges examiners

The Coordinator, South-east Conference Marking Zone, Prof. Uchenna Sydney Ajunwa Osuji, has urged the marker officers not to mark when they are too happy and when they are angry. He told them to mark only when they are normal. 

The  coordinator said this while he was briefing the officers during the 2022_2 conference marking exercise at the Enugu Study Centre.

He commended the examiners for being there for the university and reiterated that National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), upholds the status -quo of only PhD degree holders are eligible for participation in the conference marking.

Osuji said " If you are privilege to gets scripts and you know that there are other assignments that would not allow you to meet the submission deadline, you are kindly advised to decline ".

The coordinator explained that the officers are needed to be thorough, meticulous and careful in ensuring that scripts given to them are well counted, documented and guarded jealously, even as many lives are tied with it.

Osuji, while instructing the markers to collect marking guide from their respective faculties, also implored them to comport themselves well, even as the subject officers are determine to serve them better, adding that he should be contacted if there are issues for prompt response.

On the part of centre director, Prof. Alexander Uche Onyia, the examiners need to provide accurate and correct account details for prompt payment.

Earlier, Osuji had briefed the subject officers  drawn from the eight faculties of the university and urged them to work as a team.

According to the coordinator, there is no other assignments that brought them to the centre apart from the conference marking and therefore, all efforts  must be geared towards the success of it.

The former dean charged the subject officers for punctuality and the  need for daily attendance for checks and balances.

 He said examiners must be treated as colleagues with utmost respect, even as he frowns at talking down with anyone.

He concluded that subject officers are required to submit their reports which must contains the following ingredients, such as  the actual numbers of scripts, the actual numbers of examiners and actual numbers of envelopes, even as it ended without any glitch.

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