Rivers
Model Secondary School Resumes, October
The Rivers State Ministry of Education says the Nne Kurubo
Model Secondary school, Eleme, one of the 24 Model Secondary schools built by
the state government across the state would take-off on October 25, 2012.
The permanent secretary, Rivers State Ministry of Education,
Dr Richard Ofuru, disclosed this during an interview with The Tide in his
office in Port Harcourt.
Dr Ofuru explained that five of the model secondary schools
are supposed to take-off between now and the end of this year while others are
at different levels of construction.
The permanent secretary emphasized that it is a free
boarding school with a population of 1,000 students, but that for now, only 750
children would be admitted into JS1, JS2, SS1 and SS2.
According to him, those for JS1 would be primary six
passouts, adding that admission will be open to every Rivers child.
Every local government he said, is to send in 21 candidates
to make up about 483.
“The Governor has been very magnanimous and says that there
are rooms for non-indigenes and compulsorily, every state will supply two
candidates each, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT Abuja), that is,
we are expecting 72 candidates from all over Nigeria. Each class would be made
up of 25 students”, he explained.
He emphasized that the ministry through Educomp would
recruit teachers who would teach in the model secondary schools.
The permanent secretary noted that 160 would be the cut-off
mark for the 13,000 teachers’ recruitment examination, adding that there would
be a screening examination very soon.
He expressed optimism that before the end of October, the
teachers would resume teaching, stating that the teachers to be recruited from
the exercise are for the existing primary and secondary schools and not the
model schools.
On the issue of admission into the model primary schools, he
explained that parents and guardians would want their children admitted in the
various schools, saying “that is why they have crowed the gates of the model
schools.”
The permanent secretary recalled that the model schools were
abandoned by the same parents who want their children and wards to to to
private schools and have now come back because of the facilities and
infrastructure government has put in place.
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