Emmanuel Ifeanyi 
A group, Abia Retired Teachers (ART) Forum, has come up with suggestions on how to make government primary and secondary schools in the state top-notch and the best among the rest in the country.
The forum in a meeting with Governor Alex Otti appreciated the governor’s wisdom and foresight to separate Basic Education from Tertiary Education through the creation of a special ministry for the basic education, stressing that basic education is being grossly abused with zero attention.
During the meeting in Umuahia, the ART Forum told Otti who was represented by his Commissioner for Basic Education, Mr Goodluck Ubochi, that introduction of One Child-One-Skill policy; introduction of Practical Agriculture; and restoration of Teachers Quarters within primary and secondary schools will go a long way in restoring the lost glory of basic education in the state.
The ART forum while noting that education without application of what is learnt is useless, stressed that Nigeria is in an era of massive unemployment and there is absolutely no way government and education stakeholders can sit idly by and watch children conclude their 6+6(12) years of primary and secondary schools without a single skill.
