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Schools
By Martha Agas
Jos, Oct 18, 2017(NAN)The Plateau government has inaugurated a 19-member committee to monitor schools in its rural areas.
The committee, according to Prof. Mathew Sule, Executive Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), is to serve as the bridge between government and rural school authorities.
Sule, who inaugurated the committee on Wednesday in Jos, said that it would monitor public primary and Junior Secondary Schools.
He said that the committee was an initiative of the Federal Government to augment state government’s efforts toward improving the quality of education.
“The initiative seeks to garner collective efforts of host communities in monitoring infrastructural development.
“The committee can monitor schools using the harmonised time table in the State to ensure that teachers discharged their duties effectively.
“It can also initiate infrastructural development and strive for more instructional materials to boost quality of education,” he said.
Sule advised teachers in rural areas, who believed they would not be effectively monitored because of lack of access to their areas, to sit up.
“The committee will reach every corner of Plateau; there will be no escape route.
“We expect parents and guardians to assist the school authorities in mentoring children,” he said.
In his response, Mr Terry Davou, Chairman of the committee, said that the team would work toward boosting host community interest in the respective schools, thus facilitating school ownership.
“We shall provide a mechanism for effective school management and provide a platform for collaborations between communities and schools in generating resources to develop the schools.
“We shall also provide legal framework for involving stakeholders in the planning, monitoring and evaluation of education in the schools,” he said.
Davou said that the objective of the committee was to make the Nigerian child equipped morally and educationally, for a good future.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the officials, who were elected from their communities in August, are to serve for two years.
NAN also reports that the committee was approved by the National Council for Education in 2005, for collaborative efforts towards improving quality of education, through supervisory and advisory roles. (NAN)
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Edited by Ephraims Sheyin