Lost Transcripts

Arien Vikash Kumar, Nadi

Your 12 or 13 years of sweat during your school journey may be of no value if you are not able to produce your external examination transcripts during a job interview, enrolment at tertiary institutions for further education or when applying for National Toppers, etc.

Parents sacrifice and invest so much for their child towards his or her Education from day one with the hope that one day they will become something and make them feel proud.

However, all their dreams are shattered into pieces only because some children are irresponsible and careless towards their external examination transcripts.

After the successful completion of secondary education, some students don't even bother to go back to their respective schools for their original transcripts.

Out of those that collect the transcripts, some think that it's just an extra piece of paper in their files and drawers.

Thus losing or misplacing this piece of paper is not a big deal. Let me remind our students and school leavers that it becomes a big deal when this document is needed and you don't have it.

Keeping transcripts safely is as important as sitting for external examinations.

A friendly reminder to the students, be responsible now rather than the last minute bothering of teachers, school administrators or education officers.

Also, please stop the common excuse that its destroyed in natural disasters or fire. Can parents and elders, teachers and schools inculcate this sense of responsibility in our children before the closing of the 2017 school calender please.