Education
Lagos to improve learning in schools with ‘EkoEXCEL’
Lagos State Government on Wednesday expressed its readiness to support teachers in achieving better learning outcomes in classrooms with the introduction of ‘EkoEXCEL’ initiative aimed at advancing the education sector in the State.
EkoEXCEL is an education reform initiative of the Babjide Sanwo-Olu’s administration that is successfully developing more highly skilled teachers; by training, supporting and motivating existing government teachers to succeed in their classrooms.
The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, while addressing a group of education stakeholders at the EkoEXCEL stakeholders’ forum in Ikeja said that parents and other relevant stakeholders in the education sector must make a deliberate attempt to complement government’s efforts to transform the State’s education sector.
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In his words; “Parents must make it a habit to always ask their children what they learnt from school every day. This will create a consciousness of seriousness in the children and will also assist teachers in their quest to impart knowledge in the children.”
He said that the present administration identified education and technology as one of its policy thrust to bring about the needed changes in the sector, stressing that education and technology remained the fastest means of bridging the gap between Nigeria and the developed countries of the world.
Speaking on the global recommendation for the education sector, the Deputy Governor debunked claims that the State’s education sector was being under-funded, saying that allocation to the education sector must be viewed holistically considering the spiral effect which other critical sectors had on the education sector.
“I want to state here unequivocally that assessing the standard of Lagos State education sector by the percentage of budgetary allocation to the sector will not give a fair representation of the state government’s investment into the sector considering the fact that there are some other areas like the housing sector that indirectly impacts the education sector,” Hamzat added.
The SUBEB Chairman, Wahab Alawiye-King disclosed that the state government was working on addressing some anomalies in the sector, saying that the issue of school security, employment and deployment of teachers were already being addressed
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