The federal government has been advised to amend the tetfund act and make it assessible and beneficial to both private and government schools alike, if the nation’s education system must be taken to the desired level.
Executive Council Member of the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) of Ladela Schools Abuja, Barrister Maibasara Umar made the call, weekend, during the school’s 2019 graduation and prize giving ceremony held on the theme: “Reaching for the Stars”.
Umar noted the importance of quality education to any nation, stressing that government paliatives for the education sector should benefit both private and government schools since the products of both institutions will work for the development of the country.
“Government should not segregate private and public institution when it comes to support. It is disappointing that funds for tertiary education funds is restricted to only government schools, it is wrong because attention to education should be general.
“Government prepare guidlines and standards for both private and government schools, there is no need to segregate when it comes to funding and other paliative support from government.
“The government should amend the tetfund act to benefit both private and government schools because the products of these institutions will not work for themselves but the government.
“The teeming unemployed are the ones to fill up the industries, government and they are the ones to bring up the ideas for government to run well so educational support should be for all if government must be seen as the repository of the guidelines and rules as regards to education in Nigeria,” he stressed.
“Education is the key to life and any nation that gambles with the standard of education is toiling with the quality of its future. Education is the key to the discovery of scientific potentialities of any country, nation building, inclusiveness and good leadership,” he added.
He further challenged the citizenry on collective responsibility to education, adding that everybody should see themselves as the leader in the drive for the development of knowledge.
Propriator of Ladela Schools Mrs. Angela Ajala said the theme of the celebration was specially chosen to challenge the pupils and students to not be satisfied with average but break accademic records.
“If you notice the society today there is a kind of despondency where people are satisfied with mediocrity and they think normal average is okay for them and we are saying no, if you reach for the stars you might catch the clouds and so we are telling them to stretch themselves out of comfort zone, dont be laid back to follow mediocrity or average and do what others are not doing.
“The preparation we give the children now the jobs are not yet available so there are certain skills we need to build into the curricullum from adaptive skills, communication, creative, emotional intelligence skill, social digital, financial literacy skills gives the children resilience to whatever they will meet in the future.
Ajala maintained that with constant power supply, dedicated fund or a single digit interest loan for education there would be tremendous improvement in the sector.
Best graduating student for the 2018/2019 year Emmanuel Oladimehin expressed gratitude to God, his parents and teachers stressing that science and technology is backbone for development and students can use it to know what is going on around them, develop their interest and build technologies that can help the world.
“I am currently working on a project to help in emergency situations like fire outbreaks, the project will help us to improve our response to emergency situations. I believe with technology we can make the world a better place,” he said.
