The Dean Faculty of Life Sciences Bayero University Kano (BUK), Professor Abdullahi Ibrahim Lawal has raised an alarm over the decline of science education in secondary schools across the country.
He made the observation over the weekend in a good will message at the re-union meeting of the 1992 remedial and 1993 JAMB sets of the institution.
Prof Lawal said the development is manifesting in the higher institutions of learning with dangerous effects on the nation’s economy.
He noted that the current trend in education system is dangerous for survival in the 21st century where everything is technology driven.
“The emphasis in the country in the 80s was to get people to read core science subjects so as to produce more engineers and medical doctors not just professionals in the sciences. But with the collapse of the sciences in the 90s, due to lack of funding, good facilities and teachers, the system continue to decline and we are no longer producing sufficient number coming to the university and subsequently most of the public schools have collapsed literally, so we can’t get good students coming to read sciences,” he said.
He said to reverse the trend the state governments must raise to their responsibilities by ensuring the revival of science schools and equipping them with adequate facilities that would encourage science education.
In his address, the interim Chairman of the association Engr. Abdulrazak Haruna said the union was formed with a view to exploring ways members could give back to the society though their Alma Mata.
He also said the association would support any initiative aimed at encouraging science education in the country.
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