Stakeholders Seek Resource Centres For Teachers

Stakeholders in education sector have advocated  for the establishment of teachers’ resource centres to enhance capacity building of teachers.

In a communiqué issued at the just-concluded stakeholders’ forum on education policy 2012 in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, the stakeholders totaling 399 said that the establishment of Teachers Resource Centre was imperative in order to solidify the capacity of the trainers.

The communiqué, which was signed by the Rivers State Commissioner for Education, Dame Alice Lawrence-Nemi, also stressed the need for government to include guidance and counseling as part of educational services to the people.

The stakeholders noted with regret that the study of history in primary and secondary schools was facing extinction and therefore charged government to draw up a special policy that would include the study of history as a priority subject in school curricula.

While commending government for its efforts to boost Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET), the participants said that time had come for private sector partnership with government in the establishment of TVET institution across the state.

According to them, TVET would be a pivot for training of technologists and engineers that would be the hall mark of the state’s technological growth.

The stakeholders’ forum which was organized by the State Ministry of Education with the theme, “Towards Sustainable Development  In Education”, advocated for creation of gifted and  talented children schools in all the local government areas in the state.

The migrant fisher-folks education also engaged the attention of the participants at the forum in which they unanimously agreed that the children of the migrant fisher –folks should be educated like their counterparts in the urban areas.

Eunice Choko-Kayode