An examination of public schools in Nasarawa State has shown some of the facilities to be unsuitable for learning despite the huge amount of money the state says it has spent in the sector in recent years.Even some new model schools, built in 2012 by the state government, are becoming dilapidated. While some schools have new blocks, they lack adequate equipment and teaching materials.
The remaining 30 per cent of the federal government’s consolidated revenue contribution go to funding education imbalance among and within states, school feeding and health programme, incentive for good performance, education of physically and mentally challenged children, monitoring and implementation of UBE programmes.
Before the intervention of community members, who wanted an education for their children and pooled their resources to achieve this, the only block of classrooms in this school would not have been sufficient for the number of students currently enrolled. Teachers in the school told this newspaper that the last time the government supplied educational materials for students and teachers was three years ago and the last time textbooks were provided, they were not enough to go round.
According to a teacher who asked to be anonymous, “[The] government used to provide textbooks for the school in the past but not anymore.”The quality of teachers here is questionable as well as the school also has teachers whose only qualification is the SSCE. Parts of the two buildings in use have no roof and, just as in the Apawu Secondary School, when it starts raining, pupils and teachers of the Apawu Pilot Primary School are forced to run from the classes, pausing their lessons for hours at a time.
“Despite [the] minimum teaching qualification of NCE, we still have SSCE teachers who are grossly inefficient to teach and impart knowledge effectively. This has affected the quality of instruction, and since we are short of staff, we can’t but make do with what we have,” he said.In Kana Secondary School, the government has not built any classroom since 2006.
Like other schools in the area, the Kana Secondary School management has been sustained by the Parents and Teachers Association working in collaboration with members of the community. This team has only been able to provide classrooms for the students in the area and, since its inception. The government has only been able to supply teachers to the school.
The level of corruption in education sector across Federal and States is not different from what is obtainable in the health sector. These institutions are manned by Parents to provide conducive environs for their Wives and Children, but they just do a little in Urban, but Rural
Why will it not be in bad shape? When money appropriated for it is not well utilized.
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