Double-blind marking will end sex-for-mark menace – Speaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has proposed measures to tackle the menace of sex-for-mark and examination malpractices in higher institutions of learning in the country.

He made the recommendations at Osun State University, Osogbo, when he delivered the 1st Prince Tunde Ponle Annual Lecture Series.

The lecture with the topic ‘Building a Truly 21st Century University: A Task Beyond Government’, was in honour of a business mogul, Prince Tunde Ponle, on his 80th birthday.

To curtail examination malpractices, Gbajabiamila recommended double-blind marking in which two separate assessors would mark students’ scripts, without seeing each other’s comments, so that the final mark could be determined by the average point.

“This will ensure that no individual lecturer holds in their hands the power to determine a student’s future and will resist the ability of predators to corrupt such powers to service their base instincts,” he said.