Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State has banned senior civil servants in the state from sending their children and wards to private schools, with effect from the next academic session.
As part of the move to implement the new system, the senior servants whose children are currently in such schools have been directed to withdraw them from private schools and prepare them for admission into the public schools.
In an interview, the state Commissioner for Education, Professor Andrew Nock, said that plans have been concluded by the state government to restore public schools to their past glory.
“The state government has given order to all directors to withdraw their children from private schools to our own schools with a view to improving teaching and learning in the schools.”
On the failed attempts by successive administrations to implement similar policy, Nock said: “our government is not like the previous ones. What we will do is to monitor it to ensure that this order is carried to the letter.”
The commissioner said that as part of the efforts to revamp education in the state, 15 public secondary schools have been converted to boarding schools with effect from the next session.
He named the schools as Queen Amina College, Kaduna; Government Girls Secondary School, Kawo; Government Technical College, Malali; Barewa College, Zaria; Girls Science Secondary School, Kwoai; Government College, Kagoro; Government Girls Secondary School, Soba; Government College, Saminaka; Rimi College, Government College, Kaduna, Government Secondary School, Kachia; Government Girls’ College, Zonkwa and Government Secondary School, Giwa.
Nock recalled that some of the schools were originally boarding institutions before they were converted to Day Schools.
“Plans are underway to renovate and upgrade the hostels, library, clinics facilities and total landscaping of the schools to give them an aura of academic environment.” [myad]
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