Babagana Zulum, governor of
Borno, says most of the secondary school graduates produced in the state do not
qualify for admission into university.
In a statement entitled, ‘Public
schools: Tell me the truth, Zulum begs at meeting with Borno’s 84 principals’,
the governor listed the numerous challenges bedeviling the education sector
while lamenting the decline in the standard of education.
The governor was said to have
hosted the principals at the government house in Maiduguri, on Sunday.
Zulum said those who eventually
get admitted into universities still struggle academically.
“Education is the bedrock of any
development. Without functional educational system, we shall continue to
experience this Boko Haram insurgency in Borno,” Zulum said.
“Look at the kind of students we
are graduating from our public secondary schools, most of them do not qualify
for admission into universities, even those who get admitted find it very
difficult to cope.
“There is a general decline in
the standard of education in public institutions all over the country. There is
the lack of qualified teachers, inadequate teaching facilities, poor
maintenance culture, general decay of infrastructure, Government’s inability to
ensure monitoring and evaluation, centralised control by the ministry,
unnecessary bureaucracy, and irregular training and retraining of teachers and
other essential staff.
“There is poor data management
and indiscipline amongst the major problems affecting the public school
system.”
The governor also directed “the
immediate reintroduction of the common entrance examination” for primary six
pupils, insisting that “only pupils who pass the examination by securing a
cut-off mark, should be eligible for admission into the first year of Junior
Secondary Schools”.
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