EDUCATION: Parents fall prey to Scammers who peddle foreign curriculum - University Don

Parents have been urged to desist from falling prey to various strategies used by private schools to increase turn over which does not necessarily add any educational benefits to the students.

Head of Department, Curriculum studies and instructional technology, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Professor Keziah Achuonye stated this in an interview with our correspondent.

She explained that Nigerian parents who are easily swayed by foreign curriculum, usually fall prey to schools without contents that are useful to our society.

Professor Achuonye condemned the attitude where parents go on to assist their wards in external examinations or bribe for their admission into higher institutions because the schools did not adequately prepare them.

The Professor who said that our local school curriculum have been put together by local educationists to meet the demands of the society urged Government to enforce them in private schools.

Professor Keziah Achuonye stated that parents have a great role to play in influencing the type of education their children receive and hence should be properly informed before choosing a school