Delta State House of Assembly Passes Delta State Model School Bill into Law

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Delta State Model Primary Schools Bill 2014, which was sent to the Delta State House of Assembly by the Governor, Dr.  Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan has been passed into Law. The Law provides for the establishment and management of Delta State Model Primary Schools in the State.

 

The law when assented to by the Governor will establish in the Governor’s Office, an Education Services Department which shall have supervisory and monitoring functions over the model schools in the State. The State Executive Council may by Order published in the State Gazette add to or remove a school from the list of model schools in the Schedule.  

 

The implication of the law, therefore, simply means that the supervising Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education and the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) would not have control over the day to day running of the schools. In essence, the Education Services Department shall be headed by an Executive Director who shall be an experienced educationist with first degree of not less than ten years teaching experience and shall be accountable to the Governor in the day to day running of the model schools.

 

The establishment of the model schools and simultaneous refurbishing and modernization of existing primary schools across the State by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s administration is aimed at ensuring and enhancing academic excellence in the State schools. According to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, “the vision for the model schools is to use them to expose school pupils to electronic learning and ensure academic excellence.

 

There is no doubt that when the schools are fully functional; the standard obtainable would be comparable to some of the best in the World. Besides, as each of the edifice stands, the schools have the capacity to admit 420 pupils in the primary section and 60 in the nursery section. With the outlook, we all know that the model schools are going to be different. Apart from their ultra-modern looks, some of them that have already commenced learning are equipped with the state of the art electronic learning equipment. Although primary schools are the responsibility of local governments, the model primary schools will be funded and run by the State government so that the burden would not be too much for local Governments to bear.