The Executive Secretary of National Senior Secondary School Education Commission (NSSEC), Dr Benjamin Abakpa has revealed that private schools teachers are not better than public schools teachers, adding that they need monitoring and proper supervision.
Abakpa disclosed this while receiving the Hon. commissioner for education, Kaduna State, in his office in Abuja on Wednesday.
He said that what public school teachers need was proper supervision from the administrator down to teachers in the class to make sure that everybody does his/her works.
According to him, the menace of cultism in the higher institution to lack of proper check from teachers saying, if students are properly put into class to learn, what we have today should not be.
He, however, noted that the commission has a big task of prescribing of minimum standard for senior school education and also the responsibility of intervening in key areas to have all data for record purposes and proper investigation.
“We have a real database for secondary education in Nigeria whereby if you bare called upon anytime, you should be able to give the right population in your school. For example, how many students do you have, how many secondary schools, and how many function science and technical students.
He also noted that commission regulations go beyond regulating public school, we are liaisons with private schools to see that the normal comes to normal that if you want to operate a school, operate it as a real school and if you don’t have the facility to run full school, limit yourself to the level you can operate.
Meanwhile, Similarly, the Commissioner for education, Kaduna State, Shehu Muhammed, urged the commission to have biometric data for all secondary students so that if the student is leaving to another school, he can be properly checked.
He said “In Kaduna State, we have introduced blended learning whereby students can learn from home and school.Covid-19 pandemic showed a lot of things, therefore we need to prepare ourselves ahead time,”
