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Send pupils home for tuition fee and lose your job, Ekiti govt tells teachers
Ekiti state government on Wednesday read a riot act to teachers in the state on collection of illegal fees from pupils in public primary schools.
The Chairman of the Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Prof. Francisca Aladejana said Governor Kayode Fayemi’s declaration of free and compulsory education remains sacrosanct.
She said any teacher caught sending pupils away from school would be adequately sanctioned.
Francisca gave the warning yesterday during a meeting with head teachers of public primary schools in the 16 local government areas.
“It is a gross violation of the Universal Basic Education Act for pupils to be charged fees no matter under what guise” she said.
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Prof. Aladejana explained that the government was working assiduously towards providing a conducive teaching and learning environment, stressing that many school buildings and other critical infrastructures were undergoing renovation to give basic education a boost.
The SUBEB Chairman urged teachers to double their efforts in the task of providing qualitative basic education to pupils, saying that Fayemi would keep giving premium to their welfare.
She added that Fayemi had just approved the payment of running grants for the entire three terms of the 2018/ 2019 academic session to all public schools.
Aladejana enjoined teachers to key into the various reforms that were ongoing in the basic education sector, including the issue of training and retraining, introduction of child-friendly initiatives and modern teaching techniques.
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