Adult education: Obaseki mulls evening, weekend classes in Edo

By Jethro Ibileke

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has said that his government is reviewing strategies to improve adult education with the introduction of evening and weekend classes in primary schools across the state.

He stated this weekend while addressing members of the newly-elected officials of the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), who were on a courtesy visit at the Government House, Benin City.

“I want us to work together to align our educational policies. There is a whole generation who are not privileged as some of those you are teaching now to receive the kind of quality education you are impacting on the children under your care. What do we do about adult education?

“Is it possible to bring them back to evening or weekend classes so that we can train them? Considering the role of adult education, should we just leave them like that?” he queried.

The Governor who gave assurances of his administration’s commitment to the welfare of teachers in the state, as well as strengthening security in schools across the state.

“It is only a good parent and teacher that will be concerned about the security of students in schools.

“Those are the issues that are bothering us now. So, we are going to try to do as much as we can under our school improvement programmes to fence as many of our schools and those ones that we can’t fence, we will not only use the constabularies, we will now include the vigilantes to help secure the schools.”

Earlier, the State Chairman of NUT, Mr. Bernard Ajobiewe, commended the Governor for the prompt payment of salaries to all the workers in the state’s civil and public service.

He called for increased partnership between the government and teachers to guarantee the provision of quality education to students in the state.