By; MOHAMMED KAWU, Bauchi
Plans are underway by the Bauchi State Government to merge public with Islamiyya schools in the education of the state, commissioner of education, Dr. Aliyu Usman Tilde has revealed.
The commissioner, at the graduation ceremony of 600 Almajiris under the Almajiri Shummer School of the BIK Foundation in Bauchi weekend, said that the move to combine public and Islamiyah schools is geared to enhance productiveness and inculcate moral discipline among students.
Dr. Aliyu Tilde explained that the new plan is to restore moral values and teaching of Islamiyah scriptures among students and ensure that he/she learns how to memorize the Holy Qur’an before graduation.
The commissioner observed that Western education has failed to imbibe the basic and fundamental aims of learning and character to students in public schools
He said, “I saw a number of young boys smoking cigarettes and taking intoxicants by the roadside and when asked among them graduated from Islamiyah school, but none was found”.
The commissioner queried, “A situation where you can ask a secondary school graduate to write a good sentence for you, and he couldn’t leave much to be desired in an education system”.
“If we can combine the Islamiyah and public schools together and ensure that each and every student can read up to sixty verses of the Holy Qur’an before he/she graduates, you have imparted certain level of quality education into the students, as well as moral discipline”.
The education commissioner, believes that under the new arrangement, the state would graduate students with some knowledge of the Holy Qur’an and its memorization thereby, reducing the number of political thugs and other criminal elements in the society.
He attributed the waves of insecurity blowing across the society such as kidnapping, banditry, thuggery and other vices to lack of Islamic and religious from majority of the youths, saying if they were knowledgeable, would find means of livelihood and become self-employed.
The commissioner further explained that having succeeded in the separation of boys and girls schools, the next plan by the state government is to merge the two components of the education into one for better of educational system in the state.
