Executive Secretary National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) Dr Iyela Ajayi has said all senior secondary schools in the private, public and para-military will be sanctioned by the commission if they fail to comply with the minimum academic standards for senior secondary education, which will be ready in two weeks.
Speaking Wednesday in Abuja, during an advocacy visit to the Force Education unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Ajayi described senior secondary education as the bedrock of national development.
Ajayi said the commission would continue the training and retraining of teachers and non-teaching staff for optimal performance, saying the minimum standards were developed to transform secondary education in Nigeria.
“In October, the National Council of Education (NCE) met and approved the minimum standards for senior secondary education in this country. The minimum standard is going through a process of production and I want to assure you that in the next two weeks, that process will be completed.
”The document will be presented to the Minister of Education, and of course we can now agree on a date for the launch. We intend to invite all the major education stakeholders to be present during the launching. After the launching, senior secondary schools in this country will be giving the grace of time to comply fully with the minimum standard,” he said.
Also speaking, the Force Education Officer, ACP. Ibidapo Olubiyi, said the education unit was ready to collaborate with the Commission to move education to an enviable height, appealing to the Commission to extend the intervention plans to the school for better efficiency, even as he promised collaboration toward improving the country’s senior secondary education.
