Mr Onoja suggested that what is needed to improve teacher education.
The Kogi State commissioner for education, Sylvester Onoja has called on the federal government to be careful with phasing out Colleges of Education so as not to destroy the education sector.
Mr Onoja, who was the first northerner appointed principal of the famous Kings College, Lagos said frequent changes of policy have impacted negatively on the education sector as no fewer than 45 ministers had, since independence 50 years ago, headed the ministry of education and introduced different policies.
The commissioner said these changes had all but damaged the sector and called on the federal government to be careful in matters of education.
While advising government not to scrap Colleges of Education, Mr Onoja suggested that what is needed to improve teacher education is an improvement in the quality of entrance requirement, curriculum, teaching personnel and facilities as well as the quality of decision making process.
Orphans
The commissioner lamented the absence of a regulatory body for secondary schools in the country, as against other organs of education and called on federal government to establish a commission for secondary schools to regulate its curriculum and activities as, according to him, “secondary schools in the country today is an orphan”.
Mr Onoja commended federal government’s plan to establish more federal universities in the country, stressing that this would further reduce the problem of admission been experienced in the country.
The Minister of State for Education, Kenneth Gbagi had, while inaugurating the technical committee on the establishment of six new federal universities, hinted that the government was thinking of either phasing out Colleges of Education or upgrading them to degree awarding institutions.
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