The Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Olayinka
Oladunjoye has solicited the assistance of Pearson Education Publishing Limited in the
area of Technical and Vocational education to expose students to
entrepreneurial skills which could make them to be self-reliant even
while studying.
The Commissioner made the request when the team paid her a courtesy visit recently. While thanking them for
finding time out of their tight schedule to visit the Ministry to know more
about her achievements and challenges, she made it known that Lagos State
Government is doing everything within her power to improve the quality of
education in the State by providing necessary infrastructures such as
classrooms, furniture, laboratories, science equipments, books etc for rapid
development of the State’s educational system.
Oladunjoye
told the visiting team that with over 2.5 million children in the State’s
public schools and the attendant pressure on facilities and infrastructures, conscious
effort is being made at improving human and material resources through
intensive training and re-training of our teachers, provision of
infrastructural facilities, rehabilitation, reconstruction and redevelopment
of our school structures.
”We have provided well equipped science laboratories and ICT
laboratories and the welfare of our teachers is well taken care of.” The Commissioner said.
The
government according to her cannot do it alone because of the demands on the
funds of Lagos State; “this is why we are calling on all and sundry to join
hands with us to give our children the kind of education they deserve.
She
also disclosed the efforts of the government in standardizing the State’s private schools through the
assistance of ESPPIN and DFID
In her short speech, the widely travelled Cherry Price, Senior Vice
President of Pearson Professional Development, the Teacher Training Arm of
Pearson Education Publishing Limited who was visiting Nigeria for the 5th
time said she was greatly impressed with the students and teachers of a public
school earlier visited. According to her, the students were so enthusiastic and
eager to learn and the teachers too were doing a wonderful job. She stated that
the aim of coming to Lagos was to understand the problems and lend a hand in
fixing them. She said Pearson partners with government and other bodies by
organizing seminars, workshops and assessment programmes for teachers,
principals and other stakeholders.
According to the Managing Director of Pearson, Mr. Muftau Bakre, Cherry was
in Lagos to learn more about the challenges the State is facing in delivering
quality education to more than 2.5 million children and to find means of
fixing them.
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| Cherry Price, Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, Per. Secretary, Min of Edu. Mrs. Omolara Erogbogbo |
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Mr. Muftau, Cherry Price(2nd Left), Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka
Oladunjoye, Per. Secretary, Min of Edu. Mrs. Omolara Erogbogbo |
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| Cherry Price with Hon Commissioner |
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| Cherry Price, Hon Commissioner |
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