Ile-Ife (Osun)-The Dean, Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Prof Olu Jegede, has called on Parent Teacher Association and community organisations to assist government in funding school s in the country.
Jegede made the call in a Keynote address presented at the maiden edition of Life Educators Outreach Conference, tagged: “Inspire your world”, organised by Group of Proprietors, Deeper Life Bible Church, Ife Region, on Tuesday.
He said that government alone cannot fund the education system “if we truly want to have qualitative education.’’
The educationist stressed the important role that private schools had played in providing spaces for students in the country.
He said school proprietors, by this effort, had reduced unemployment, thereby contributing their own quota to the development of the society.
Jegede called on government to encourage the PTA to be more visible in contributing their quota to the development of education.
According to him, teachers are not committed to teaching and the quality of education is falling drastically, because of the delay in payment of teachers’ salaries.
He attributed students’ mass failure to fall in quality of education, lack of infrastructure/dilapidated buildings, lack of motivation and lack of supervision.
The dean said these had rather resulted in increased examination malpractices “and affecting students of tertiary institutions.’’
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Similarly, Pastor Sola Ajala, the Regional Overseer, Deeper Life Bible Church, appealed to proprietors to eschew examination malpractices and embrace truth.
Ajala told the proprietors to commit themselves to godly values by telling the truth at all times for their pupils to emulate.
The state Overseer, Deeper Christian Life Ministries, John Adeniran, urged proprietors to stop using children as cheap labour around the schools.
Adeniran, proprietor, Grace and Glory International School, Osogbo, said education was not all about making money; “it is about adding value and impacting knowledge.’’
He appealed to school owners to teach children very well to make them relevant in future.
He urged them to study more and develop themselves so as to become experts in their various fields.
Adeniran counseled them not to delay the salaries of their workers in the guise of school projects. (NAN)