ANOTHER step towards the reopening of schools will be taken today as Federal and state governments meet to review the level of compliance with the conditions.
The 52-page guidelines released by the Federal Ministry of Education is designed to navigate the path for the resumption of pupils in exit classes to enable them write their external examinations despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Also expected are representatives of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools , the umbrella body of private school owners and the All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools . The permanent secretary said the date for the common entrance examination will be announced at the end of today’s meeting.
“The subject is for us to decide on the issue of reopening of schools for all the exit classes to take their final examinations. “Since WAEC is saying next month; which we have disagreed with or November, the exit classes can resume and start preparations and do all these exams then we will meet WAEC by November.”
“Until after that meeting before update. They have asked schools to fill a form based on the 52-page guidelines and submit by July 29. After July 29 there will be a meeting.”The Lagos State NAPPS President, Alhaji Olawale Ahmed, told The Nation that private schools were ready for the resumption of SS3 pupils.
He said: “We have received guidelines from the Federal Ministry of Education on reopening of schools and we have interrogated the issues they sent to us, out of twelve we have been able to meet 10. Osun is good to go with school reopening. The other two have to do with taking instruction and clearance.
Omenugha in Awka yesterday that the State Executive Council had approved the procurement and distribution of 1,000 infrared thermometers to public primary and secondary schools.She said the new 1, 000 thermometers were replacement in schools where a recent inventory had shown that they were no longer functional.
She said that there were not less than 3, 000 public and private secondary and primary schools in the state, each of which must be ready before resumption. Also, the Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Students Affairs, Adeyemi Azeez, said the state government on top of its plans to reopen schools across the state.
The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr Foluso Daramola, said no school would be allowed to resume without complying with the stipulated guidelines to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
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