Momoh Proffers Solution To Education Sector Challenges

Chairman and main enforcement serviceman of Channels Media Group, owners of Channels TV,  Dr John Momoh, has proffered solutions to challenges bedeviling Nigeria’s acquisition sector.

Momoh, who was the impermanent talker astatine the Baptist Academy Old Students Association (BAOSA) 170th day and founder’s time successful Lagos connected Friday, said schools indispensable beryllium safe, functional and inspiring spaces again arsenic the spot shortage indispensable beryllium reduced.

Speaking connected the theme: ‘Bridging the gap- Restoring spot betwixt schools, authorities and society’ the celebrated broadcaster and media mogul  enumerated the challenges successful schools contiguous compared to during his clip arsenic a three-way breakdown which has acold caused declining standards, younker employment and weakened civilian life. These challenges, helium said, person brought astir a spot shortage betwixt schools, authorities and society.

Momoh, an aged pupil of Baptism Academy, commended the national authorities connected the caller program reforms and renewed accent connected method and vocational education, and advocated partnership- a genuine societal compact betwixt government, educators, parents, alumni and the backstage sector.

“Across the country, classrooms are overcrowded, laboratories basal idle, and the joyousness of learning has excessively often been replaced by vexation and fatigue. The teacher shortage is acute – astir 200,000 secondary-level teaching positions stay unfilled.

In galore schools, 1 teacher handles aggregate subjects, often extracurricular their country of training.

“Poor remuneration, delayed salaries, and constricted nonrecreational improvement person drained morale and driven galore distant from the classroom.

“Insecurity compounds these challenges. In the North-West and North-East, full schools person unopen down owed to kidnappings and attacks. Some 8 cardinal Nigerian children of secondary schoolhouse property are retired of schoolhouse — the highest fig successful sub-Saharan Africa. Among those enrolled, three-quarters cannot work oregon lick basal mathematics problems. In definite regions, the dependable of gunfire has replaced the schoolhouse bell; successful others, poorness and the rising outgo of backstage acquisition has turned learning into a privilege, alternatively than a right.

“And the backstage schoolhouse sector, portion filling gaps, brings its ain dilemma –  rapid, unregulated expansion, inconsistent standards, and rising fees that exclude the poor.

“Education, erstwhile the large equalizer, present excessively often reflects inequality.

Yet, successful the midst of these difficulties, anticipation endures. The Federal Government’s caller program reforms, renewed accent connected method and vocational education, and the quiescent heroism of teachers who inactive amusement up each time punctual america that each is not lost. For if Baptist Academy and schools similar it could emergence from humble beginnings successful 1855 to go beacons of motivation and intelligence light, past we excessively tin rebuild — not simply with bricks and mortar, but with vision, integrity, and a shared consciousness of purpose.

“Our task astatine this milestone, therefore, is not lone to observe a practice of excellence, but to inquire — however tin we, arsenic alumni, educators, parents, and citizens, assistance span the widening spread betwixt our schools, our government, and our society? How tin we reconstruct spot successful an acquisition strategy that erstwhile defined our nationalist character?

“The restoration of spot successful our schools requires a concern — a genuine societal compact betwixt government, educators, parents, alumni, and the backstage sector, each moving successful performance to reclaim the intent and prestige of learning,” helium stated.

Speaking further the keynote talker who gave his 4 prong solutions, tasked each players wrong the assemblage to reconstruct the dignity of the teaching assemblage arsenic nary betterment volition win if teachers stay undervalued and underpaid.

“We cannot proceed to request excellence from classrooms wherever morale is breached and salaries are uncertain. We request deliberate concern successful teacher training, incentives for agrarian service, and continuous nonrecreational improvement that rewards merit and integrity.

“Second, our schools indispensable beryllium safe, functional, and inspiring spaces. It is unacceptable that children inactive survey successful leaking classrooms oregon fearfulness abduction connected their mode to school. Every child, successful each state, deserves a unafraid situation that fosters curiosity and confidence. Alumni associations similar ours tin instrumentality the pb — by adopting schools, renovating facilities, providing star power, oregon equipping libraries and ICT labs. In doing so, we show that acquisition is not the government’s load alone; it is our corporate inheritance and responsibility.

“Third, we indispensable redefine what we thatch and however we thatch it. The caller nationalist program presents a aureate accidental to marque learning applicable again — to emp...