By Magnus Emuji
ASABA/Nigeria: Delta State Commissioner for Secondary Education, Mrs. Rose Ezewu has reassured the strong determination of the Ministry of Basic and Secondary in the state to implementing the policies of guiding it in order to actualise the stronger Delta vision of Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration in the education sector.
Mrs. Ezewu gave the assurance in Asaba when the Association of Independent Schools Proprietors of Nigeria (AISPON), Delta State chapter led by its chairman, Barr. John Tobore Ofuedo paid her a courtesy visit.
She said that every association, especially stakeholders in the education sector should partner with the Ministry to improve the standard of education in the state.
Mrs. Ezewu, who decried the rate of examination malpractice in schools, called on parents to desist from encouraging their children to indulge in examination malpractice.
She advised proprietors of private schools in the state to avoid unnecessary proliferation of associations, adding that there was need for all the proprietors of private schools to come together as one indivisible association to enable it achieve more results.
Earlier, the Chairman of the association, Barr. John Tobore Ofuedo informed the commissioner that they were in the Ministry to familiarise with her and to also intimate her of their existence as well as to pay her condolence visit in view of her mother’s death.
Barr. Ofudedo, who described the effects of examination malpractice as highly injurious to the educational development of any society, urged stakeholders and the Ministry in particular to tackle the menance as quickly as possible.
He said that most parents usually assisted their children in examination malpractice believing it was through it that their children could achieve accelerated educational pursuit, adding that they often relocated them from their schools to miracle centres without realising they were endangering their future.
