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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2004           Resource centre for Benue teachers Benue government is to build an ultra-modern resource centre for teachers next year at the cost of N1.7 billion. The Chairman of the State Primary Education Board, Mr Laha Dzever, told newsmen in Makurdi on Tuesday that the state government was determined to improve on the quality of teaching in public primary schools. He explained that the centre would be equipped with modern teaching aids to expose newly recruited teachers to new techniques of imparting knowledge in pupils. Dzever noted that facilities would be provided at the centre for intensive periodic refresher courses to be organised for teachers already in service. The centre would be located in a village where distractions which usually came with the hustle and bustle of city life would be non-existent, he said ``The design is ready and the state government has directed that construction should start unfailingly next year,'' he noted. The chairman announced that the board had built 78 boreholes in some primary schools in the state to provide pupils with clean drinking water during school hours. He said the boreholes were constructed with technical support from the State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency and added that plans were under way to cover more schools next year under the programme. Dzever criticised suggestions in some quarters that a law be passed to prohibit government officials from sending their children to private schools. ``To me, we are in a democratic dispensation, with citizens enjoying some basic rights among which is the freedom to send your child to any school of your choice.'' He said it was not fair for people to think that government would pay attention to public schools only when their children attended such schools, ``after all, only God knows which child will be a better person tomorrow''. SITE TOOLS Print This Page   EMAIL THIS PAGE Friend's Name: Friend's  Email: Your Name: Your Email:           � Triumph Publishing Company Limited 2004

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