Zulum: Most secondary school leavers in Borno unqualified for university admission

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Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has said that most of the products of the state secondary schools are not qualified for university admission.

The governor who hosted principals of the state secondary schools at Government House on Sunday also said that those who managed to gain admission struggled to cope.

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In a statement entitled, “Public schools: Tell me the truth, Zulum begs at meeting with Borno’s 84 principals”, the governor lamented the decline in the standard of education in the state, listing  the numerous challenges bedevilling the education sector.

He said, “Education is the bedrock of any development. Without functional educational system, we shall continue to experience this Boko Haram insurgency in Borno.

“Look at the kind of students we are graduating from our public secondary schools, most of them do not qualify for admission into universities, even those who get admitted find it very difficult to cope.

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“There is a general decline in the standard of education in public institutions all over the country. There is the lack of qualified teachers, inadequate teaching facilities, poor maintenance culture, general decay of infrastructure, Government’s inability to ensure monitoring and evaluation, centralised control by the ministry, unnecessary bureaucracy, and irregular training and retraining of teachers and other essential staff.

“There is poor data management and indiscipline amongst the major problems affecting the public school system.”

To reverse the trend, the governor directed “the immediate reintroduction of the common entrance examination” for primary six pupils, insisting that “only pupils who pass the examination by securing a cut-off mark, should be eligible for admission into the first year of Junior Secondary Schools”.