Ezekwesili Calls Government Intervention in Public Schools
The senior economic adviser, African Economic Development Policy Initiative (AEDPI), Obiagile Ezekwesili, says leaving children of the poor in a failing educational system will consign them to a “dynasty of poverty”.
Ezekwesili said this on Thursday while speaking at the 9th Wole Soyinka Centre media lecture series.
She noted that majority of the poor are found in the failing public school system.
According to her: “The children we had in primary school as at the time I worked as head of education in the country, children in public primary schools were 65 to 70 percent, only 30 to 35 percent were in private primary schools,” Ezekwesili said.
“Now guess what, there is a correlation between the poor and the public school attendance, what it means is that, the failing public school system is where you have the majority of the poor, now considering that the availability of power is an important factor in the quantity and quality of studies that children do.
Ezekwesili said this on Thursday while speaking at the 9th Wole Soyinka Centre media lecture series.
She noted that majority of the poor are found in the failing public school system.
According to her: “The children we had in primary school as at the time I worked as head of education in the country, children in public primary schools were 65 to 70 percent, only 30 to 35 percent were in private primary schools,” Ezekwesili said.
“Now guess what, there is a correlation between the poor and the public school attendance, what it means is that, the failing public school system is where you have the majority of the poor, now considering that the availability of power is an important factor in the quantity and quality of studies that children do.
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