In its bid to expose learners to alternative career pathways that would help create entrepreneurial opportunities for them, and to ultimately reduce the high rate of unemployment plaguing the nation, Bayelsa State Ministry of Education has agreed to adopt Tourism as a subject in schools.
Commissioner of Education, Dr Gentle Emela, who gave the hint when his counterpart from the State Ministry of Tourism Development, Hon. John Alla, presented a copy of the national curriculum for tourism studies in secondary schools along with textbook to him in his office in Yenagoa on Thursday, said the decision to introduce Tourism into school curriculum, was meant to address the lack of skills which has become as a barrier to accessing business and job opportunities in the tourism industry.
Dr Emela maintained that the introduction of Tourism in secondary schools in the state would further address socio-economic imbalances, poverty and other socio-economic inequalities in communities, noting that the introduction of Tourism would afford learners opportunities to develop vocational skills required in the tourism sector and encourage students to explore entrepreneurial and job opportunities that abound in the sector.
While commending the Commissioner for Tourism Development for being proactive in proposing the introduction of tourism into the secondary school curriculum as part of measures to provide young people with alternative career pathways, Dr Emela also applauded Governor Douye Diri for appointing someone with great passion for tourism as Commissioner, saying that the prosperity administrations focus on tourism was the stimulus that informed the decision to introduce Tourism into the secondary school curriculum in the state.
Earlier, the visiting Commissioner for Tourism Development, Hon. John Alla had stressed the urgent need to give tourism training the desired attention, pointing out that the inclusion of Tourism as a curricular subject in secondary schools in the state properly aligns with the prosperity administrations inclusive governance, that lays much emphasis on poverty alleviation.
Hon. Alla maintained that one way to achieve this aim was the early introduction of Tourism into the senior secondary school curriculum in the state with a view to developing vocational skills needed to further improve and support the tourism industry in the state.
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