Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has said that his government’s reforms in the education sector manifested in the results of the 2013 Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations where 50.10 per cent of the candidates from the state passed with a minimum of five credits, including English and Mathematics. Chime said this was an improvement on the results of the students in 2012 when only 31.16 per cent passed the examination.
Speaking in Enugu, the governor said: ‘’The free basic education policy which covers children in primary and post-primary schools up to Junior Secondary School, JSS, III is another success story that we need to highlight.
‘’Available statistics show that between 2012 and 2013, school enrolment rate in pre-primary and primary schools rose from 65 per cent to 85 per cent, thereby reducing drastically the number of out-of-school children.
‘’Deserving students received scholarship awards from the government this year while 2,000 orphans and vulnerable children received educational empowerment in collaboration with some non-governmental organisations.’’
