Education
Association Harps On Qualified Teachers
The Rivers State Chapter of the National Association of
Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), has harped on the need to employ
qualified teachers as members of the association so as to proffer lasting
solution to the nagging challenges in the education sector.
The state chapter of the group, Dr. Peter Harrison, said
this last week while briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt as part of the
activities to mark this year’s NAPPS day.
Harrison regretted that school operation has become all
comers affairs, thereby encouraging quackery in the system.
He explained that professions like law, medicine and others
have those registered with them as their members.
According to him, several school owners are not registered
with NAPPS, saying that such people are putting the lives of the children on
line as they lacked the requisite teaching knowledge.
The NAPPS leader also hinted that government would soon come
up with conditions that would checkmate the activities of intruders in the
system.
Those that would meet up with the conditions he said, must
be teachers or ex-teachers who are duly registered with the National Teachers
Council (NTC) who are also members of NAPPS.
The Tide gathered that NAPPS are faced with over 10
different forms of taxation, with the hotbed at Obio/Akpor, Ikwerre, Eleme,
Oyigbo and Port Harcourt City Councils.
He stressed that such levies/taxes are not so in other
states, adding that his association has taken the matter to the Rivers State
House of Assembly for consideration.
About the Rivers State government’s moves to have all
business premises in the state registered with the Ministry of Commerce and
Industry, he said negotiation is still on, while calling on members to resist
moves to pay money to any group.
He was optimistic that government has recognised NAPPS
contribution in education development, as he appealed with members to maintain
such tempo.
It would be recalled that NAPPS has set aside every October
12, as its celebration day.
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
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