From Jimoh Ahmed, Owo

Stakeholders in the education sector have made a case for collaborative efforts among the communities, old students associations, missionary societies and Parent Teacher Association, PTA, to bail out the country’s education sector out of its present dwindling fortunes.

Speaking during an interview with The Hope in Isua Akoko, an educationist and retired school principal, Mr Jide Afolabi, said education requires lot of resources that government alone cannot shoulder.

Afolabi stressed that there was an urgent need to salvage the sector through stakeholders’ participation in running public schools.

A parent and the Chairman, Parent Teacher Association, Adougbo Grammar School,  Afin Akoko, Mr. Shedu Ikumuyite, commended the PTA in Ondo State for synergising with schools in the recruitment and paying adhoc teachers for special subjects in public schools.

Sheidu averred that the synergy has gone a long way to provide succor for schools with inadequate teachers.

While commending the old students’ associations of schools in Akokoland, for assisting the schools with infrastructure development, they charged them to do more in assisting the government and especially the students.