School Owner urges quality education in public schools through teachers' training

The Chief Executive Officer of the Brookehouse School in Lekki, Lagos, fueko Thomas, has pleaded with the government to ensure that public schools get the same quality that the private schools are getting by embarking on training and retraining of teachers.

This is also as Thomas disclosed that raising children to be intellectually and morally sound is essential in today’s world.

She made the disclosure at the 2nd graduation and prize giving day ceremony of the school.

“For example, we have a fantastic relationship with the Eti-Osa Local Government Area and we are working with them to train public school teachers. We also have the Child Right Movement where we talk about every child’s right to quality education.

“Child Right is already in place in Nigeria; there is a Child Right Act that Nigeria signed to – the right to health, welfare, education, the right to be treated fairly, and the right to be heard. We teach our pupils these rights but we don’t teach them to be rude; it is part of our curriculum,” she said.

She explained that education without character was counterproductive, calling on teachers to imbibe the values they teach children.

Thomas explained that in today’s society the level of corruption is high despite the rate of education, adding that education without character is nothing.

“Someone comes out with first class in Medicine, for example, but the person is not honest, not diligent, not trustworthy. So, whatever education you have without character is useless.”

Within few years of Brookehouse existence, she said: “We are already seeing the result of our trainings in our pupils. For example, One of our pupils went to write an examination at a school and the school authorities were amazed and had to send message to our school that the boy had done our school proud because he was well behaved.

“Besides, on academics, we have set a target of 90 percent and we have gotten 99 percent in terms of pass for our year six pupils. Last year we surpassed the target but this year we have even done better.

“Our pupils did the Cambridge Checkpoint examination with our curriculum and they passed. They prepared for it within a month; it was a late decision we had to make. “We decided to test our pupils if they could actually write the exam as most parents were clamouring for it, and eventually they did excellently.”

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.