The impact of Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s total free education policy for public secondary schools will no doubt be felt in various ways in the state as Students and Teachers have commended the Policy.
Government House Correspondent, Ejike Abana reports that Governor Soludo had during a meeting with school principals in Awka recently announced that his government’s free education policy which was hitherto available to school children in Nursery, Primary and Junior Secondary School in the state will now be extended to those in Senior Secondary Schools as well.
Over the past one year, the policy introduced for pupils and students from kindergarten to Junior Secondary School three led to an increase in enrolment rate of eighteen-point seven percent, which was made up of mostly students from low-income families.
When ABS visited Igwebuike Grammar School, Awka, the Principal, Mr. Joe-Vita Arazu was seen addressing students on the new policy at the assembly ground and some of the students who spoke including Philip Afunanya in Senior Secondary one and John Alagba in Senior Secondary School three commended the policy.
An English teacher, Chinwe Akpulue and Ngozi Nnaemeka who teach Government and Social Studies respectively said that the implementation of the minimum wage will go a long way to spur them to do more work.
At other locations visited such as Capital City Secondary School, Awka and Ezi-Awka Community Secondary School, Chidinma Ozuma and Mmesoma Achi, both Senior Secondary two students as well as Marvelous Anieze, a Senior Secondary three student were of the opinion that because of the new education policy, their parents will now deploy the money meant for their school fees to other uses.
Mrs. Nneka Odilimmụọ, a Physics Teacher at Capital City Secondary School, Awka, expressed optimism of brighter prospects as a result of the newly introduced policy as the initiative has removed the financial burden of education on parents who were struggling to pay their children’s tuition fees, especially in these hard times.
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