The Executive Chairman of Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (Edo SUBEB), Mrs. Ozavize Salami has called on parents and guardians of pupils in Primary and Junior Secondary Schools to be more committed to the education of their children as the new academic session begins.
Mrs. Salami made the remark during a resumption monitoring visit to schools as part of activities marking the commencement of the 2022/2023 academic session on Monday 12, September 2022.
Speaking to journalists she said “Government has put in place the machinery to ensure that quality education is delivered to all our pupils from the very first day of school resumption across Edo state. In the schools that we have visited, learning has commenced, teachers are in school and they have started teaching. We have done our part, cleaned the schools, made ready lessons but the parents must send their children to school so they can take full advantage of our readiness,” .
Mrs. Salami visited Olua Primary School, Emotan College (Junior Secondary School) and several other schools where excited pupils greeted the visitors with cheers and EdoBEST songs.
Teachers as well were seen in their numbers as they came prepared for school resumption. The turnout of Pupils in schools visited was encouraging and impressive but quite a numbers of students were yet to show up.
Preparation for the 2022/2023 academic session began immediately the third term holiday started with Edo SUBEB taking several proactive steps to ensure that pupils return to school personnel and environments befitting for learning.
To strengthen the quality assurance process, a two-day E-Quality Assurance capacity building exercise was conducted for Quality Assurance Officers in partnership with the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) and Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) during the holiday.
Prior to school resumption, the Obaseki led administration through SUBEB engaged 1,446 teachers and school leaders from primary and junior secondary schools in a 10-day EdoBEST Induction Training programme which ushered in all Junior Secondary Schools classes into the EdoBEST programme.
Several parents were seen making enquiries about admission processes for new intakes while some collected forms to process admission for their wards in the schools that were visited by the Executive Chairman and her team.
Edo State Governor Mr.Godwin Obaseki before the academic session began, had charged parents and guardians of out-of-school pupils in Edo State to ensure their wards return back to school rather than hawk on the streets as his administration will prosecute offenders.
To show the readiness of the Obaseki administration to fight and stop children from street hawking, the Commissioner of Education, Dr. Joan Oviawe launched the “School O’clock” campaign that seeks to implement this directive of the Governor.
This government initiative will see staff across the education ecosystem across the 18 Local Government Areas of Edo State run daily patrol to ensure no child is seen on the streets during school hours between 7.40am and 2.45pm on school days. This will ensure that no child in Edo State is left behind in the drive to get all pupils to school.
