Delta: Why Students Are Drifting From Private To Government Colleges

Students of the Warri Model Technical College, Effurun, Delta State were on vacation when the team of visiting journalists from across the country arrived last Saturday at what could unarguably pass off as a campus of a university.

The state-of-the-art edifices was initially what stirred interest for many in the school. That interest eventually overflowed for those who came in when they saw the infrastructure and other equipment provided for the school.

The Warri Model Technical College, Effurun is only one of nine model technical colleges established by the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa administration. Of the nine, three have already taken off fully in Asaba, Obiaruku and Effurun. The others are in various stages of completion in Omadino, Irri, Akugbene, Oghareki, Kiagbodo and Orerokpe.

Speaking to the visiting journalists, a tutor of the Model Technical College, Effurun, Nkwa Prince Anthony disclosed how the school has redirected social balance in the environment that has led many parents withdrawing their wards from private schools to the school.

According to him many of the parents were drawn to the finishing of the buildings scattered around the complex. He, however, went on to say that the parents were also further carried away by the state of the art equipment provided for the school that grooms pupils in different sectors of science, technology and crafts including carpentry and such.

The establishment of the nine model technical colleges followed the government’s initial move in rehabilitating the six technical colleges it met on ground.

All six in Sapele, Agbor, Kwale, Issele-Uku, Ofagbe and Ogor were rehabilitated by the Okowa administration.

GWG.ng reports that the Okowa administration’s inclination to the establishment of the model and regular technical colleges is in line with the government’s inclination towards boosting the sciences.

That proclivity has been further crystalised with the establishment of the Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro.

Though the Delta State University was one of the three new universities established by the Okowa administration, state officials told the visiting journalists that the university was conceived to absorb graduates of the various schools.

“These students coming out of the technical colleges have the option of either going to conventional universities or the Delta State University of Science and Technology where they can further equip themselves as innovators and entrepreneurs,” the official said.

Undeniably, one of the take-aways from the Okowa administration’s investments in technical educatio is the exquisite stadium at the Delta State University, Ozoro which was wholly built by the students of the institution.

The stadium according to state officials has regularly hosted tournaments within and outside the state, giving a fillip to the crave by the Okowa administration for technological development.

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