NAPPS tasks FG on incentives for schools

Nkem Adukwu-Bolujoko

Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) has marked its 21 years of existence with a call on the federal government to recognise private schools as partners in progress and articulate incentives for investors in education.

National president of the association, Nkem Adukwu-Bolujoko, who made the appeal in an address at the event organised by the Karu chapter, Nasarawa state, of the association, also called for the eradication of multiple taxations that the private schools were laden with.

Represented by ex-president north-central zone, Mr. Charles Olokwe, he said good incentives would lead to more investment in education as well as more jobs created for the teeming unemployed graduates.

He said: “if teaching must be a profession, we must begin by having a register of licensed practitioners. Therefore, get your teachers registered and refuse to employ any teacher that has not been registered.”

 

Another issue raised v of concern was the need for each school to come up with a Quality Assurance Procedure (QAP).

He noted that a good assurance mechanism would help in preventing mistakes in the process of schools functions leading to a relatively error-proof delivery.

Bolujoko assured that the NAPPS Bill was ready, but due to paucity of funds, they were unable to present the Bill to the National Assembly.

In his welcome speech, the chapter chairman, Pastor Agada Abraham, described the occasion as “an epoch- making one” in the sense that the school entrepreneurs had made immeasurable efforts to have set aside October 12, every year as NAPPS Day.

 

“Your role as custodians of children and builders of lives must not be compromised because of financial gains. Despite the economic down turn, lets still have a human feeling to ensure the continuity of rendering qualitative education to the public.”