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Opinion: Education Investments Paying Off - Semiu Okanlawon by seunlly(m): 6:51pm On Oct 27, 2016 |
: In this article, Semiu
Okanlawon talks about the improvement in
Osun state’s education sector. He equally
justified the huge investment of the
Aregbesola government in education.
Fresh information emanating from the West Africa
Examination Council (WAEC) has shown a rise in
performance of students who wrote the May/June
West African Senior School Certificate Examination
(WASSCE) in the state of Osun, as opposed to trending
news stating otherwise.
The analysis of 10 years WASSCE results as seen in the
table below, shows the massive investments in education
by the administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is
showing increasing dividends.
Source: WAEC, October 2016
Results seen in the analysis shows Osun students’ who
passed with 5+ credits including English and
Mathematics, reached a record low of 6.86% of the
total number of candidates who sat for the exams in
2007, long before the advent of Ogbeni Rauf
Aregbesola in the state.
Most critics fail to analyse Osun’s historical performance
when comparing the performance of students across
states in Nigeria. The laid-back analysis of comparing
state by state performance by many is faulty, in that,
if a state presents only 10,000 candidates for the
WASSCE, and 7,500 students are able to secure 5
credits including mathematics and English, then such
state with a pass rate of 75%, would be placed above a
state who presents 100,000 candidates with a 50%
pass rate.
As much as this analysis could be theoretically correct,
it fails to put into consideration, peculiarities of
individual states. Consider the State of Osun for
example, analysis of WASSCE result over a 10-year
period shows considerable improvement in the
performance of students, reaching a climax of 46.3% in
2016.. While this achievement may appear insignificant at face
value, however, compared to the year 2007 when a
woeful 6.86% pass rate was recorded, it attests to the
considerable interventions the state government has
made to tackle education head on. Since the Ogbeni
administration took over governance in November 2010,
students’ WAEC performance has gradually improved as
seen in the infograph below.
Specifically, the 2016 WASSCE result (46.3%% pass
rate) shows an improvement of 113.56% over a space
of one year when compared to the 2015 result (21.68%
pass rate). We can go on and on calculating how year
in, year out, the Aregbesola administration has
embarked on painstaking steps to not only address the
relative decline and stagnation in students’ educational
performance but recorded considerable improvement
accordingly. While skeptics and cynics sat back and
dismissed the Ogbeni’s administration as it committed
considerable steps to arrest the over 30 year rot in
education, they failed to realize that, the future of our
youth is non-negotiable as such considerable positive
change of this magnitude requires systematic effort,
determinism and perseverance which is often a slow and
gradual process.
Need I recall that the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola inherited
a comatose education sector, where teachers lacked
motivation, students were less interested in learning,
and school buildings resembled chicken pens rather than
institutions of learning. However, a quick run across the
state shows considerable improvement from the past
administrations in an effort to avoid failing too many of
our children by sending them out into what we hope to
become a 21st century economy through the doors of
20th century schools. New palatial learning buildings now
dot the Osun landscape – One was recently
commissioned by President Muhammudu Buhari on
Thursday, 1st of September, 2016. Osun teachers are
well paid and equipped – 5,000 of them has been
trained and retrained so far, and students more than
ever before, are taking vast opportunities before them.
The Opon-Imo tablet still works wonders amongst
students who possess them. Opon-Imo, an indigenous
Technology Enhanced Learning Platform (TELP) with
locally produced content is designed for the Nigerian
secondary education system. It is preloaded with lesson
notes on seventeen (17) subjects offered by students
writing the West African Senior School Certificate
Examinations (WASSCE) and NECO SSCE. Also preloaded
inside the Opon-Imo tablet is over 40,000 past
examination questions spanning a period of ten years,
for (private) practice, 63 e-textbooks covering 17
subjects’ areas that students do register for in external
examinations and 51 audio tutorials installed as study aid.
Opon-Imo is also preloaded with seven extra-curricular
subjects such as Sexuality Education, Civic Education,
Yoruba History, Ifa Traditional Religion, Computer
Education and Entrepreneurship Education, and Twelve
Thousand Yoruba Proverbs.
These and many more are the initiatives and measures
the Ogbeni Aregbesola administration has set in place to
concisely improve the state of education for the future
of our kids and consequently nation. The basic premise is
that the status quo of dilapidated structures, ill-equipped
teachers, limited exposure of our kids to the very tools
driving 21st century economies must be tackled
comprehensively. The future of our kids, development of
our economy and building of a nation through education
is a promise the Ogbeni administration seeks to guard
jealously and deliver. Osun may not be in the desired
place amongst comity of states in WASSCE
performance, but we are making considerable strides as
we deliver our promise to the people, and Ogbeni’s
investment in education is paying off.
Semiu Okanlawon is the Director of Bureau of
Communications and Strategy, Office of the Governor,
State of Osun. |
Re: Opinion: Education Investments Paying Off - Semiu Okanlawon by sheffyUTD(m): 7:53pm On Oct 27, 2016 |
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