A senior education consultant, University of Lagos, Dr. Joseph Ola Awoyinfa, has revealed that the 2008/2009 West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASCE)’s mass failure of students will continue if the government failed to improve the condition of service of teachers.
In a chat with Campus Square, Dr. Awoyinfa further stated that condition of training and infrastructure under which students learn must be improved because it was the major factor responsible for mass failure in the last WASCE results of students.
According to the education consultant: “No student wants to fail, but the environment under which they learn is not conducive,” adding that, “if these students are provided with an enabling environment, majority of them will perform, otherwise the mass failure will continue.”
Dr. Awoyinfa decried sacking of teachers, stressing that it would not solve the problem because most teachers went through teachers training colleges.
He added that teachers need training and retaining, so that they can be more active at work.
“No nation can outgrow the potency and intellectual capacity of the teachers and whatever you put into the teacher is what he/she will give back to the students.”
The varsity lecturer thanked Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State for the recent training and retraining of teachers, urging him to extend his good work in the environmental sector to education, using his deputy to provide basic needs of the students, such as good learning environment in schools across the state.
Dr. Awoyinfa also stated that the idea of automatic promotion of students, whether failed or passed, all in the name of free education will not help the country’s education to grow.
He, therefore, warned that politics should not be mixed with education if the country was ready to sanitise the system.
He also advised individual parents to have sizable number of children they can cater for, and make sure they give them qualitative education, because education remains the best legacy.
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