Anambra state Commissioner for Education, Prof Kate Azuka Omenugha, has said that the Mr. Willie Obiano’s administration has exposed school children in the state to “global education” and aggressively transformed technical and vocational education in the state, revealing that examination malpractice has been brought to the barest minimum.
The education commissioner who stated this last week Thursday while conducting Journalists round the Loretto Special Science Secondary School, Adazi-Nnuwu, disclosed that Loretto was the best secondary school in the 2014/2015 academic year.
According to Prof. Omenugha, World Bank has immensely supported the state
educationally while research base programmes are been funded, “We have
embarked on girl-child, education, performance and aggressive campaign
on bring back our girls to school.” but however lamented that some school children trek more than 20 minutes to school.
“This has also informed us to locate schools closer to them. And we also locate schools in every market. Anambra State has become a reflex point in terms of education. Government has supported schools across the state with subvention to the tune of millions. Anambra has highest number of informal education and less drop out of school.
The commissioner also stated that to bring standard to education, volunteers have also come up to monitor the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) to get reports from independent bodies, saying “In 2016, we took our students to partake in debate in Singapore and our student won their counterparts over there. And out f the 11 technical schools, four have been accredited.
On Information Communication Technology (ICT), the Education Commissioner said, “We have 38 per cent of our teachers who are ICT literate, we took them for Microsoft base examination and I can tell you that teachers in Anambra are Microsoft certified. While the state government has also put in place aggressive training for primary school teachers. And in 2018, we are putting plans in place to see that all students have palmtops”
HardReporters correspondent reports that the tour was also taken to the Stine/ Anambra Rice Mill and JOSAN Rice Mill where journalists were conducted round the facilities.