Union Calls For Revival Of Education Sector

The leadership of
Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) in the country has called on the federal and state governments to revive the education sector in order to save the sector from imminent collapse.
A statement by the union last Tuesday, signed by its president, Comrade Matthews Ranti said the mass failure recorded in the last West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE) was a clear indication that the sector was on the verge of imminent collapse.
Ranti attributed the failure to government’s refusal to invest in the development of the education sector in spite of appeals by prominent Nigerians and other organisations for the government to save the sector.
The ASUSS boss said that the mass failure has implication for the sector’s development, stressing that stakeholders in the education sector must all accept the challenges and responsibilities of  finding solution to the urgly trend witnessed  in the sector.
He blamed government for doing nothing to the problems confronting the education sector in the country especially the problems of empty laboratories and libraries, acute shortage of qualified teachers in key subjects in most secondary and tertiary institutions.
He called for collective efforts of stakeholders to ensure that some problems including dilapidated structures, unsuitable teaching and learning enrolment, poor mobilisation and proper funding of the sector are given priority attentions in order to raise the standard of education.
He said the unions in the sector and other stakeholders must brace up to the challenge of reviving the education sector in order to sustain the integrity of the teaching profession in the country.

Philip Okparaji