To ensure compliance with educational standards and protect pupils and students from substandard learning environments, the Cross River State Government has shut down 10 schools operating without government approval.
The enforcement was carried out by the Ministry of Education through its Quality Assurance Department to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and protect pupils and students from substandard learning environments.
The affected schools in Calabar South include Aunty Offiong’s Talent Nursery/Primary School, Dreams and Destiny Manifestation Nursery/Primary School, Abba’s Delight Kids Academy, Evangel High School, Destined Headers International School, Phronesis-Sunesis School of Excellence, Emerald Bay Schools, Elsin Foundation and Bridgeway International Schools.
According to the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Stephen Odey, on Friday, the exercise was aimed at safeguarding the future of pupils and students by ensuring that schools met the required standards for effective teaching and learning.
“The exercise is aimed at safeguarding the future of our pupils and students by ensuring that schools meet the required standards for effective teaching and learning,” he stated.
Odey urged proprietors of schools operating without approval to regularise their institutions, warning that any school sealed by the ministry and reopened without authorisation would face appropriate sanctions.
“The exercise will continue across the 18 Local Government Areas of the State,” the commissioner said.
He reiterated the ministry’s commitment to protecting the quality, safety and integrity of education across the state, stressing that compliance with approved standards was essential to providing pupils and students with a safe and conducive learning environment.
Odey added that monitoring and enforcement activities would continue across the state as the ministry intensifies efforts to ensure that schools comply with government requirements.