Benue govt seals two schools over textbook policy violations

The Benue Education Quality Assurance and Examinations Board, BEQAEB, has sealed Orenda and Opal Schools implicit alleged maltreatment of learners and non-compliance with the Benue State Government’s argumentation regulating textbook purchases and reuse.

The enforcement workout was led by the Board’s Executive Secretary, Dr Terna Francis, alongside officials from its Directorate of Enforcement and Compliance.

​The enactment followed the work of a tribunal bid authorising the closure of the schoolhouse premises connected the proprietor.

Francis expressed disappointment that immoderate schoolhouse operators had continued to disregard authorities directives contempt repeated consciousness campaigns by the Ministry of Education and Knowledge Management and BEQAEB connected the request to instrumentality policies aimed astatine reducing the fiscal load connected parents and protecting learners from unfair treatment.

He explained that the authorities government’s textbook argumentation permits parents to reuse suitable textbooks antecedently purchased for their older children by handing them down to younger siblings.

The argumentation besides allows parents to get the required textbook lists from s...