IKOT ABASI
Students in Akwa Ibom State public schools have expressed the determination to study hard and come out in flying coloursin the new academic session and to achieve 90 percent government benchmark of five subjects pass including Mathematics and English Language as the 2022/2023 academic year commences.
The students gave the assurance when the commissioner for education, Mrs Idongesit Etiebet, represented by the permanent secretary, Ministry of Education, Lady Rose Bassey, monitored the resumption of schools for the 2022 /2023 academic session
Etiebet, who said government had put everything in place for the students to access the free, compulsory and qualitative education and advised students, teachers and parents to reciprocate the gesture on their level of commitment in teaching, learning and supporting the children to achieve the needed results to make the state proud.
She stated that it is the collective responsibility of the teachers and parents to train the children and impart good morals in them adding that education is all about grooming children in character and learning.
While addressing teachers at Secondary Commercial School, Ibekwe in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area, Mrs. Etiebet said teachers in the teaching profession should be passionate about the children and education as it would create a positive impact in the minds of the students.
She reiterated the need for teachers to respect constituted authority and be willing to work without supervision and to justify their pay at the end of the month.
The education boss expressed the need for the senior secondary classes to meet the 90 percent pass rate target set by Governor Udom Emmanuel which means a minimum of five credits including English and Mathematics as to make their parents and the state proud.
The commissioner told students to take their studies seriously and come out with good results, and called on students who were not yet back to school to resume immediately as academic activities had started in earnest.
The director, Quality Assurance Services, Mrs. Roseline Mfon, who led the Team C on the inspection, called on teachers to be dedicated to their duties so that students could meet up the targetto achieve the best in performances both in class and examination.
Mfon admonished the teachers to see their job as a call to service from God to mould the destinies of the children in a godly way in order to lay the right foundation for them.
While welcoming the principals and teachers to the new academic year, she expressed satisfaction on the high turnout of teachers and students to school and sued for active participation in school activities.
Schools visited were Secondary Commercial Schools Ibikwe, Ikot Abasi, Command Secondary School, Efa Etinan, QIC Group of School Ikot Akpan Udo, Etinan, Salvation Army High School Efa, Etinan, Government School Ikot Ebak, Mkpat Enin. Ibiaku Clan and Community Secondary School, Ikot Ebak.
Others were AME Zion School, Ikot Abia. EDU Secondary School. QIC Secondary Commercial School, Minya.Community Secondary School, Ikot Akpan Essiet, Methodist School Ikpe Annang, Essien Udim, State Secondary Commercial School Ikot Ekpene, Okonosco Comprehensive High School, Abak Road, Ikot Ekpene and Community Secondary School, Odobo, Okobo LGA
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