By Providence Obuh

To enhance quality of students and improve educational standard, Bellina Schools have called on the Federal Government to ensure zero tolerance, proper monitoring and funding of schools are put in place.

The call was made at the Valedictory/Prize Giving Ceremony Class of 2014/2015 for Bellina Schools, (that is Bellina college, Nursery and Primary Schools).

In a separate interview, the School Administrator and the Principal, Mrs. Kenechukwu Ifeoma and Mr.  Kola Ishola, told Vanguard that there is a need to build teachers capacity both in service and formal training, adding that workshops and seminars at home and abroad will give the necessary exposure.

According to Ifeoma, “The government needs proper monitoring and also funding of the schools, if you go to most public schools it is dilapidated and many people will not want to be recognised with such schools without good class rooms and laboratories. So it will be difficult for students to learn in such environment.

“The government need to put in more fund into the education sector, motivate the staff and monitor them, once this is is done, you will find out that they will produce good products but when all these things are not done, you never can tell what the products of such schools will be or look like.  Some secondary schools graduates can not write their names, some cannot express themselves in English and it borders us as teachers.

Speaking on the school, she said, “For us as a school, we are contributing our quota because we have not changed our standard, instead it has gone even higher and we try to imbibe all the innovations, we introduce new things to make it interesting for the children. We found that technology must come into play in all  we do, that is why you see our students with iPhones, iPad and all those gadgets. We try as much as possible to inculcate all these in our system in order to make it interesting and we also put a control so that they do not abuse its use.  “Government should monitor what happens in schools, is not as if we don’t have good hands but the good hands are not adequately motivated and also they are not monitored properly to ensure they harness the potential in them,” she said.

Ishola added that Nigeria has good schools despite parents taking their children abroad for study.

His words, “those who have money can afford to get such expensive education for their children, but there are schools all over Nigeria that gives exactly if not better education.

“We have brought in a lot of experts into the country, running all the high-level schools, I don’t see any reason why any one should be running after them, some of us have robbed shoulders with them and we have seen their worth. A lot of us are better, those groomed, tutored and brought up by the Nigerian system are better than them.”