L-R: Princewill Odidi and Goddy Etta
Efio-Ita Nyok|20 September 2016
Not every ram shackled hamlet should be called a private school and charging exorbitant fees. There should be basic minimum standards for curriculum, class size, teacher-student ratio and discipline
Ikom, Cross River-born and Atlanta-based social commentator/development consultant, Princewill Odidi, in reaction to a Vanguard Newspaper report of yesterday titled: 'Enugu govt sets up committee to evaluate and verify standards of private schools', has advised that the government of Cross River State should follow suit after Enugu. Odidi asked the state government to pry into the quality of education churned out by private schools.
In charging the state government to follow after the government of Enugu state, Odidi declared that, 'It is important that Cross River state does the same'. 'Not every ram shackled hamlet should be called a private school and charging exorbitant fees. There should be basic minimum standards for curriculum, class size, teacher-student ratio and discipline'.
Odidi further noted that, 'A nation or state collapses when the standard of education is reduced to mediocrity. More important, the state should focus on upgrading primary and secondary school infrastructure'.
'Maintaining existing schools and improving standards is a policy in the right direction, while at the same time not neglecting teachers salary', Odidi concluded.
We are believing that the Commissioner for Education, Mr Goddy Etta, will take this advise seriously and give the state's educational system a face-lift. It will be recalled that in the last WAEC School Certificate Examination rating Cross River was struggling the bottom row with insurgency-troubled states in the north.
Efio-Ita Nyok
Is a Blogger & the Editor of Negroidhaven.org