Ekiti State Commissioner for Education, Dr Bimpe Aderiye has said that the ongoing collation of data on students in primary and secondary schools is to engender proper planning and well-informed decisions.
Speaking while featuring on an audience participation bilingual simulcast on radio stations in the State and beyond tagged “Ekiti Today/Ekiti l’oni”, Dr. Aderiye reiterated the commitment of the State Government to the provision of “accessible, affordable and functional education using prevailing technology to ensure that nobody is left behind.”
Highlighting the four key components employed by Government to achieve its target as enrolment, retainership, transition and completion, Aderiye stressed that education remains compulsory up to senior secondary school level in the State adding that enrolment of school age children is therefore not optional.
She emphasized that Government is also particular that pupils and students do not prematurely drop out of school, adding that no stone is being left unturned to ensure that no school-age child drops out of school irrespective of their background, financial status and circumstances.
According to her, apart from the fact that education in the State remains free, indigent and vulnerable students benefit from conditional cash transfer as part of efforts at ensuring that nobody is loses the benefit of being formally educated.
She described rumors of mass failure in placement examination as a misconception, putting the percentage of students that passed the examination at 97.43% for public Primary Schools pupils and 97.28% for Private schools in the State.
She advised parents and guardians not to be rigid about the choice of schools for the children and wards, assuring that there is no school in the State that was left behind in the rehabilitation and upgrading of both facilities and personnel which has raised the standard obtainable in schools that were hitherto not considered very reputable.
Aderiye stressed that there is no need for them to entertain any fear in terms quality of education their children would receive in any government school in the State.
She also emphasized the need for parents to monitor their wards home work to enhance the efforts of the teachers, adding that home training should not be handled with levity, as the school only build on the existing foundation that were laid at home.
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