The National Association OF Academic Technologists (NAAT) has blamed the abysmal performance of secondary school students on the dwindling allocation of resources to the education sector.
The union in a communiqués reached at the end of its 37th National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, held at Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U), Ile-Ife, noted that despite the existence of ‘special centres’, the results of the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) keeps dropping year on year.
The union observed that the abysmal performance is equally to blame for the falling standard of education across the tertiary levels. The communiqué read in part: “In spite of the worrisome existence of ’special centres’, the results of SSCE keep dropping – implying poor quality of secondary school graduates. This may not be unconnected with the poor allocation of financial and human resources to the education sector.
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SSANU, NASU, NAAT request N30 billion from FG to end strike
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) have asked the federal government to release the sum of N30 billion to them.
The unions said the N30 billion is a condition given to the federal government to fulfill before they can call off their ongoing industrial strike action. The demand was made by the national vice president of SSANU, Alfred Jimoh, during a protest against FG’s refusal to negotiate and the failure of government officials to honour agreement reached with them.
Speaking to journalists, Jimoh said, should the federal government release the N30 billion as requested, it would be added to the N4.6 billion shared among the three non-teaching staff of the unions. Jimoh said: “Government should release more funds to take care of the arrears of the earned allowance of the three non-teaching staff of universities and commence the immediate implementation of the allowances to forestall further accumulation of the arrears.”
Source : Vanguard