By Nna Anulumadu
St John’s Technical secondary school Alor is now college with a difference and a center of attraction as Nigerian parents living in United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany and other foreign countries are now sending their children to acquire their post primary education in the said college.
Trinitas newspaper correspondent who paid a courtesy visit to the school observed the presence of a good number of foreign students from different countries studying in the college.
The school manager Rev Fr Dr. Francis Unegbu who spoke to the press attributed the development to the top notch academic curriculum the college is using in training the students.
His words: “Every teacher here is demonstrating high level of commitment to work, teaching the students beyond what is contained in the curriculum. We don’t just stop at achieving our scheme of work, we go beyond the scheme, carrying the students along. Based on that, we have recorded high level of success in academics, character formation and otherwise”.
He disclosed that two students from US who were admitted into the college couple of years ago have graduated recently and went back to US. “Currently we have students from Germany, one from London. Another two students from Ireland will join the college by next week.
Once they arrive, we give them proper orientation and move to them to class rooms. We are actually giving then soft landing and assist them to adjust to the new culture they met. I studied in Europe and knew how to make them comfortable so that they can excel academically, morally and other wise. In other words, we have a strategy of giving them a friendly environment and we have trained our home students to socialize with the foreign ones to avoid bullying. Once they settled down, they begin to flow academically, socially and otherwise”.
The manager further attributed the development to quality and holistic education and super character formation the college is known for. He posited that people believed in what they are doing and that is what prompting them to start sending their ward far away from advanced nations to study here.
” This is school is 64 years old now. Five years ago, we moved from four hundred and fifty students to over one thousand students we are training now. Each year, we have a about eight hundred students buying our forms even though we can only admit two hundred and forty students per session. The presence of the foreign students is sign that international communities are attracted to the academic prowess we are achieving and they believing and trusting in our capacity and ability to deliver holistic education.
