Anambra state government has revealed plans to upgrade and equip schools in the state.
The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, who made the disclosure at the state assembly complex, Awka after defending the 2022 revised budget for the ministrysaid the target was to have a conducive atmosphere of learning and also inbuilt into the curriculum dependable skills that will make the children wholesome human beings.
According to her, Anambra government led by Prof. Chukwuma Soludo wants school children to be trained and tutored in a more conducive learning environment and in accordance with requisite standards.
Prof. Chuma-Udeh, declared that Soludo government intends to raise progressive human beings who can participate in the development of the contemporary society.
The Education Commissioner noted that there is a paradigm shift from the traditional method of learning to what she described as Hi-Tech education. She also disclosed that most dilapidated primary school buildings would be renovated so that children would be comfortable while learning.
According to her, well-trained teachers who will lend themselves to continuous upgrade of teachers’ learning through symposia, conferences, peer reviews and so on, will be introduced into the system for proper and optimal training of the children in schools.
She said children had started going to assemblies and the march-pass is on. Other activities that were taken out of schools have been returned and restored by the Soludo administration.