An educationist and former school principal, Sehinde Arogbofa, has called on the governments at all levels to adopt the recommendation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation on education for the betterment of the sector.
According to him, the UNESCO recommendation that 26 per cent of the national budget should be spent on education would do the education sector of the country a lot of good.
Arogbofa spoke at the inauguration of an administrative building and a block of science laboratories at Community Comprehensive High School, Ikaram-Akoko in Akoko North-West Local Government Area of Ondo State.
The project was carried out by the old students association of the school.
Decrying the rate at which the quality and standard of education is nose-diving in the nation, Arogbofa said the decadence was as a result of poor planning and inadequate funding.
He said, “Unless the government at all levels adhered to the recommendations of appropriating over 26 percent of the total annual budget to education, there would not be an end to crisis in the education sector.”
He called on government to expedite action on the plan to institute a commission for secondary school education in the country, noting that it would boost the administration of post-primary education and improve quality and standard of education from the elementary level upward.
The leader of the association, Barrister Williams-Daudu, who was represented at the event by his wife, Dr. Funmilola Williams-Daudu, commended all members of the association for their desire and readiness to contribute to restoring and adding to the structures of the school.
He said, “In raising funds, I have led from the front in terms of making contributions and members of the association have been very fantastic in responding to our calls for financial donations. Not only that, a number of my friends across the country have been supportive.”
The principal of the school, Adebisi Adesina, commended and appreciated the old students for turning around the fortune of their alma matter.
He said, “The old students are just fantastic and passionate about the future of the current students in the school. They have renovated dilapidated buildings, and today we are inaugurating a world standard administrative building and a block of science laboratories they facilitated.
“These great people have placed some of our indigent but brilliant students on scholarship and hired and paying teachers for the school.”
The principal, however, appealed to the state government to send more teachers to the school and equip their laboratories so that the efforts of the old students wouldn’t be in vain.
