Buhari urged to appoint tested educationist as minister

President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, has been advised to appoint a seasoned educationist as the minister of education.It was said that such a move would enable the government to formulate an educational policy that would improve the standard of education.Buhari was also advised to ensure that professionals were employed as teachers in the public and privateschools.The Proprietress of Oloruntele Integrity College, Meiran, Lagos, Mrs. Kehinde Otuyemi, spoke in Lagos on Monday, during a presentation of a policy paper on ‘The Way Forward in Education’, at the school’s Appreciation Day, adding that the standard of education in the country was falling.Otuyemi, a seasoned educationist and a retired teacher, said it was regrettable that Nigerian schools did not rank among the best in the world.According to her, something urgent must the done to stop the trend.She said, “I advise the President-elect to appoint a tested educationist as the minister of education. This is the only way the fall in the standard of education can be addressed. It is the only way forward. Government should revert to the past when only trained teachers were employed in private and public schools.”Otuyemi attributed the fall in the standard of education to poor teaching, over pampering by parents and indulgence of malpractices.She said that was why institutions produced half-baked graduates.The Chairman of the Board of Governors, Deacon David Otuyemi, enjoined the supervisory units of the ministries of education to be alive to their responsibilities by also paying unscheduled visits to private schools to monitor their activities.