Islamiyya Teachers Association in Bauchi State on Thursday urged the state government to regulate activities of Islamiyya schools in the state.
Chairman of the association, Malam Kabiru Shuaibu, told newsmen in Bauchi that the proliferation of Islamiyya schools had become worrisome as some of the schools operated without decorum.
The regulation and monitoring of the schools would ensure standards and discipline, he said.
“Government needs to evolve a mechanism to monitor the schools and check some of their unwholesome activities to establish standards,’’ he added.
Shuaibu noted that while Islamiyya schools played an important role in the moral upbringing of children, they still needed to be guided.
He expressed regret that the state government had neglected Islamiyya schools making almost all of them to source for funds on their own.
“We appeal to the state government to involve Islamiyya schools teachers in training and retraining programmes to update their knowledge in modern teaching methods,’’ he said.
Shuaibu also appealed to the state government to pay some monthly stipends to Islamiyya schools teachers to support and encourage them.
In his remarks, Ustaz Muhammad Bakoji, Director Education, at the Jama’atu Izalatul Bid’ah wa Iqamatis Sunna, lamented that some Islamiyya schools were graduating half-baked students and said the trend was disturbing.
He blamed parents and teachers for the continued deterioration of Islamiyya education as they prioritised their selfish interest above the education of the children.
“There is the need for parents to ensure that their children are well educated as part of their obligations to them,’’ he said.
Bakoji also called on Islamic organisations to devise ways to tackle challenges in Islamiyya schools that were under their jurisdiction so as to facilitate the needed change.
