To address the falling standard of education, President Goodluck Jonathan is set to convene a special emergency summit in Abuja between tomorrow and on Wednesday.
The President announced this at a dinner to commemorate the nation’s 50th Independence anniversary celebrations held at the State House annex in Marina, Lagos.
Addressing the gathering, Jonathan said the two-day summit would be attended by governors, rulers, leaders and stakeholders in the education sector.
The President said the brainstorming session would proffer solutions to the problems of mass failure in secondary education examinations and the poor quality of products of tertiary institutions.
“We have a situation where our educational sector no longer produces the kind of people we expect.
“When you talk of NECO, SSCE and JAMB results, the rate of failure is so alarming and we need to ask what is happening?.
“Some of us attended schools that you hardly see a graduate teacher but still people read and passed their examinations with alphas.
“The failure today is so poor that the people who passed into secondary schools are not materials to enter into the schools and that is the beginning of the crisis.
