- SUBEB To Provide More Infrastructure
As schools in Ekiti prepare to resume for academic activities for the 2021/22 session, the Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Femi Akinwumi has assured stakeholders in the education sector that the State Government would strengthen infrastructure in schools, improve teachers’ capacity and ensure effective monitoring to ensure quality service delivery.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti on the level of preparedness for reopening schools, Prof. Akinwumi said that the SUBEB was undergoing a departmental review of the activities of the Board in the last one year to determine the impact of the 12 training programmes held for teachers and other non-teaching staff during the period under review.
Akinwumi added that arrangement had also been concluded to hold post-training assessment in both public primary and junior secondary schools across the 16 Local Government Areas of the State immediately after resumption for the 2021/22 session.
He noted that the Board, in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), trained and retrained over 14,000 teachers, school administrators and school support officers under an aggressive capacity building programme that had been variously described as the most robust training programme in the history of the State.
According to him, 12,417 Teachers of public primary and secondary schools, 1,133 Head teachers as well as 202 Quality Assurance & School Support Officers and 28 members of the SUBEB Management were trained on a wide range of topics including Pedagogy, school safety training, Digital Literacy, Jolly Phonics, School Based Model Training as well as Leadership and Strategic Management in the COVID-19 Era School management, Quality Assurance Concept, School Based Model, Strengthening Mathematics and Science Education as well as English proficiency training.
He explained that the programmes were conducted in partnership with reputable Educational Institutions including the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Federal University, Oye-Ekiti; Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti and the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA).
Assuring that the Board would give topmost priority to effective monitoring of schools to ensure quality service delivery in all the 909 existing public primary schools in the State, Akinwumi said that Global Positioning technology was being employed to track Quality Assurance Officers assigned to monitor the schools to confirm if they actually get to schools assigned to them or not.
Prof. Akinwumi added that android devices had already been procured and distributed to the quality assurance officers for the authentication of the longitudinal and latitudinal coordinate of schools monitored and for filing their daily report to the board and UBEC via the World-Wide-Web.
He, however, solicited the continued support of the all stakeholders for efforts at improving the education sector in the State, noting that the Kayode Fayemi-led administration and UBEC had made a massive investment in the basic education sectors in the State in the last 34months.
Akinwumi also assured that Ekiti SUBEB would continue to engage critical stakeholders in the sector to support activities of the Boar towards achieving the desired goal.
Packaged by Emmanuel Adeniran
