Education is the best legacy any parent can offer a child. Nothing can be compared to giving a child a sound education. Over the years we have seen the advantages of having a sound education.
Many have utilized the opportunity of being educated to attain prominent places in life.
To stand out among colleagues, it entail diligence and hard work. Performing excellently well in academics entails hard work and serious commitment.
Incentives is a good way of motivating people in putting their best in whatever they do. Many students have been motivated by rewards that comes after graduating in flying colours, which is a good way of encouraging student in performing excellently well in their academics. Incentives can be in monetary form or non monetary form.
Rewarding student in monetary form based on academic brilliance is good but not the best. In a country like Nigeria, The amount given to student for academic brilliance is really small, imagine offering less than $100. The amount to be given should be quatifiably enough for the student to invest with.
I have seen lot of student who graduated with first-class and remain jobless for years. Many of them wanted to further their education but they couldn't due to financial incapability which ought not to so.
I remember a friend of mine who graduate with first class, she was highly intelligent, On our convocation day she was given a cash reward. Her plan was to further her education after her first degree but due to financial incapability she could not achieve her dream. Most jobs she got were underpaying her which is really disheartening.
There are lot of youth like her who are no able to achieve there dreams due to financial incapability. Monetary reward given to them are so small and it seems valueless. Many of this youth end up venturing into criminal act like cyber-crime just to make ends meet. I believe a better reward system should be given for academic brilliance, this will help in raising promising youth in various sector of life.
I believe Scholarship and employment opportunities should be accompanied with any monetary reward they will give to student for academic brilliance . This will commensurate with the hardwork the student gave to achieve an excellent academic performance. Many times, i have realised that the monetary reward given to student for academic brilliance is not even enough to sustain an average man for a month. This shows that the money can not be use to achieve any tangible thing due to low amount given.
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The best reward they can offer for academic brilliance is by adding value to the student by creating scholarship and employment opportunities for the student so that they can develop more in their choice of career, with this i believe we will have more well-skilled and excellent individuals in various fields as relating to career space.
In other to encourage upcoming student in putting their best in becoming excellent in their studies. I believe a valuable reward should be given to student who perform exceptionally well and not necessarily a monetary reward.