DON'T LOSE, FORGET EXAM TRANSCRIPTS

Arien Vikash Kumar, Nadi

Your 12 or 13 years of sweat during your school journey may be of no value if you are unable to produce your external examination transcripts during a job interview or 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 proud.

However, all their dreams are shattered only because some children are irresponsible and careless when it concerns their external examination transcripts.

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

Out of those who do collect the transcripts, some think that it's just another piece of paper to put in their files and drawers. Thus, losing or misplacing this piece of paper is no big deal.

Let me remind our students and school leavers that it becomes a big deal when these document are needed but you don't have them readily available. Keeping transcripts safely is just as important as sitting an external examination.

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 the transcripts were destroyed in natural disasters or fire. Can parents, elders, teachers and schools inculcate this sense of responsibility in our children before the closing of the 2017 school calendar, please?