The Bauchi state Commissioner for Education, Mr Aliyu Tilde, on Friday, said the state government has concluded plans to separate male and female students in secondary schools in the state.
He stated this while addressing newsmen after the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting noting that the idea was to address moral decadence, which had become prevalent among the pupils of secondary schools.
Tilde, however, said the move would only be executed whenever and wherever it was possib
The commissioner explained that where they could not be separated completely, their seating arrangement would be in such a that the males would occupy one side of a classroom and the females at the other side of the classroom.
He gave an example where a class teacher caught two students while being taught in a classroom and was engaging in an immoral act.
“The most important thing is that we don’t want to undo the progress that we have made in the past on girl-child education by allowing this trend to continue.
“We came up with an idea, let us extend that 1978 abrogation of core education policy to cover our day secondary schools as well, wherever and whenever it is possible.
“Wherever is possible is talking about the geography and whenever is possible is talking about the distribution in time. That is, maybe it is possible tomorrow or not in terms of separating them completely.
“Wherever is possible is where perhaps we have two-day secondary schools within the same vicinity, we’ll allocate one to girls and the other to boys,” he said.
The commissioner announced that the state government had also approved the establishment of a College of Education in the Dass Local Government Area of the state.
He said the institution would be named Dass College of Education until further notice when it would be named after a patriot from the area.