How social vices affect schooling – Chioma Osuji
The Policy Adviser, Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All (CSACEFA), Chioma Osuji, spoke on the effects of social vices in schools.
Over N360 billion has been accessed by the states from the Federal Government to improve basic education, but challenges still persist. Why?
If you go to these states that have accessed UBEC counterpart funding you will discover that basic education there is still in shamble; there’s no teaching and learning materials among others. What happened to the utilization of these funds, what happened to the management of the funds? This is something that we are looking at.
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JAMB to organise retreat
Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been advised to find a way of hasten up admission process into various universities in the country which is a little bit delayed this year.
The board is also tasked to organised a retreat to brainstorm on how best they can handle admission process in order to avoid delay being experienced this year.
”The body responsible for admission should see how they will conclude this year’s admission and thereafter have a small retreat to brainstorm on their experience vis-a-vis what happened last year and then be able to identify loopholes and how best to do it in order to make sure that the delay will not be experience again next year,” he said.
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If you must flog, don’t do that when you are provoked.
The sudden death of Mrs Makachi Rita, a teacher at Starlight Secondary School, Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, after receiving strokes of the cane from the angry parent of one of her students, has continued to generate mixed reactions.
The deceased, a class mistress in charge of Senior Secondary School (SSS1) was said to have flogged a female student over negligence of assigned duty as well as insubordination.
In view of the ugly development, some teachers have said they would rather respond to students’ inappropriate behaviour through other punitive measures than caning them.
A teacher in one of public schools in the state, who simply identified herself as Ulunma, said it would be a folly for any teacher to continue flogging students after the pathetic story of their late colleague, Mrs Rita.
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