Ola, Joe Attueyi:
Let me second Joe Attueyi's ideas, and outline them as follows:
1. An educational emergency should be declared in the ENTIRE country.
2. In the PRIMARY school, the MINIMUM number of different subjects should be taught and no more:
(a) English (writing, reading, comprehension, speaking)
(b) Arithmetic
(c) one native language (spoken)
(d) Social Studies (Civics, History, Geography)
(e) Hygiene and Nature Studies, with a strong experimental science bent (f) etc
(f) Graduates without jobs should be heavily recruited such that the 20:1 ratio (or so) per class is achieved.
(g) Public primary school should be FREE to all.
etc,
3. In the SECONDARY school:
(a) strong emphasis on Scientific Education (Problem-solving) and teamwork, with emphasis too on Science education.
(b) all NGOs and other PROPRIETORS that want their schools back should be given them back.
(c) all Alumni and private companies should be encouraged to ADOPT-A-SCHOOL.
(d) all others can be retained for LOCAL GOVERNMENT control, and a few as STATE secondary schools.
(e) Education to JSS 3 should be free, with ALL students mandatorily CERTIFIED in one WORK-SKILL or other, otherwise no graduation.
(f) In SSS, parents should be urged to pay one-third of the fees, with students certified EITHER in a DIFFERENT skill
from their JSS one, or in a HIGHER CERTIFICATION in the same skill with which they graduated in JSS.
(8) Tertiary education slots should be GUARANTEED to at least 70% of SSS graduates.
etc.
4. In the UNIVERSITY
(a) all universities (old and new) must show a plan of having NO LESS than 50 - 1000,000 undergraduate students total within a 10-year period, otherwise they won't be approved (if to be newly established) or their continuation (if old) is threatened.
(b) school fees should be charged, but scholarships, grants and loans should be offered.
(c) enforcement of 60-40 or even 70-30 STEM-nonSTEM course (STEM- Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
(d) two-year NYSC, followed by post-NYSC disbursement of a Special Enterpreneurship Fund for New Graduates.
etc,
Other ideas are welcome.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
PS: I remind everyone about my Education Template. We have ALWAYS to address each of these eleven items below HOLISTICALLY at each level of education:
- students
- academic staff
- non-academic staff
- curriculum
- teaching and learning facilities
- living and recreational facilities
- finances
- governance structures
- community relations
- standards, quality control, examinations and accreditation
- post-graduation opportunities
On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 9:41 AM, 'Joe Attueyi' via AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Dr Kassim,In fairness to the students of Osun state, less than 30% of them got 'opon Imo'. It was an opportunity to award a contract to the governor's son. And pay 'mobilization ' to the pay-per-post vuvuzulas who went about praising it as the next best thing after sliced bread. There is nothing you wrote below that was not apparent before the fact to any student of public policyIn addition to yours below, one thing that has worked is the return of confiscated schools to their previous owners/ old students association. Just imagine that St Charles is returned to its previous proprietors. It's old students like Ayo will rally round to return old school to its old glory. This will not only relieve the state of some of its burden but will indirectly tax some of the citizens to give back to society through rebuilding their alma materSince Gregs was handed back to the Catholic mission, the old boys have spent in excess of N100 Million revamping its infrastructure and standards. States should borrow successful ideas from each otherYou wrote:The most marginalized zones in Nigeria are the NW, NC and the NE. These zones need a "Marshall Plan"in the form of additional socio-economic stimuli or else they would continue to deter the socio-economic progress in the restof Nigeria.My own suggestion is a 'marshal plan' for education nationally. Free , compulsory , quality education for every Nigerian child up to at least JS3. Compulsory in the sense that if your child is found begging or selling akara or not in school it will be a crime committed by the parent or guardianIf we have to tax fuel N10 per liter and tax every house higher than a bungalow and tax every car bigger than 1.2 liter engine and put 100% levy on private jets etc to fund it so be it. In one generation we will drastically reduce illiteracy. And who knows, may produce our own Bill Gates etcJoe--
On Feb 5, 2016, at 4:33 PM, olakassimmd via AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com> wrote:"Only 646 candidates from the 14, 784 that wrote the exam in Yobe got five credits and above the thereby coming last with 4.27 per cent. Northern states occupied the rear positions with nine northern states in the last ten positions. They are Adamawa, Osun, Sokoto, Bauchi, Kebbi, Katsina, Gombe, Jigawa, Zamfara and Yobe. Lagos with 68, 173 out of 141, 963 candidates that sat for the examination placed sixth on the rankings."Analysis of 2015 WAEC resultsPastor Joe and Vin:
I was just going to make the same comments on Opon Imo.It appears that the hundreds millions of Naira spent on opon imohave not yielded the expected results.
It is unwise to depend too heavily on digital educationin an environment in which electricity supply isin adequate and irregular. Chalk and blackboard,paper textbooks and exercise books still have their places in modern education,
The best value adding investments in education are the following:
a) ensure the children are well nourished no matter the socio-economic statusof their parents before going to school and during school hours.
b) provide conducive environment for education with well maintained and weather protectedclass rooms as it is difficult to achieve excellence in education when the children/students have to takemost of their classes outdoors protected only by shade of the trees or in ramshackleclassrooms with thatched roofs.
c) train and employ ONLY well qualified and well trained teachers in adequate numbers and ensure that their remunerationsare commensurate with their training and their jobs and that such remunerations are paid when due.
It is quite possible that the a more detailed analysis of the WAEC results would confirm the following:
1) students from private secondary schools would have done much better n aggregate than children frompublic schools.
2) the higher the socio-economic status and the level of education attained by the parents, the higher the performanceof the students in WAEC and vice versa
The results of the WAEC exams mirror the socio-economic development status of different regionsof Nigeria as they are inversely proportional to the poverty rates in across Nigeria.Northern Nigerian states have the highest poverty rates in the country. Not surprisingly they also havethe worst results in the WAEC exams.
The journalist who analyzed the 2015 WAEC results would probably not have scored that highly in Geography orCivics as I noticed that he has shifted Osun state to the Northern Nigeria:)
The year in year out WAEC results constitute an indirect measure of the state of the nation in Nigeria and howthe citizens in her component states and zones are fairing socioeconomically now and how well or badly they would perform in the future.
The most marginalized zones in Nigeria are the NW, NC and the NE. These zones need a "Marshall Plan"in the form of additional socio-economic stimuli or else they would continue to deter the socio-economic progress in the restof Nigeria.
Bye,
Ola--
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Joe:
I am surprised. Very surprised.
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Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] WAEC 2015: Abia and Anambra States top WAEC Ranking–See List
Osun state with its 'opon Imo' is the worst performing state in the south and in the bottom 10 states nationally
The limits of propaganda
Joe
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On Feb 5, 2016, at 4:59 PM, 'Paul Oranika' via AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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