School heads in Ogun State’s Yewa North Local Government Area have been trained on how to ensure quality in everything they do as a way of working with the government to provide people with inexpensive and high-quality education.
Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, stated via Zoom during the Quality Assurance Evaluation Training, titled “Quality Assurance In Schools: The Roles Of School Heads,” organised by Zonal Education Office Yewa North, that as part of the ministry’s quality assurance efforts, schools, whether public or private primary or secondary, must strictly adhere to government standards and policies on quality assurance.
Prof. Arigbabu urged the Zonal Education Office to work harder to bring unapproved schools in the axis up to code, warning that any school operating illegally will be forced to comply or be closed down.
He praised the organisers for putting in place an effort worthy of increasing teaching and learning settings in schools, as well as capable of improving educational quality at all levels for improved academic achievement.
“I want to especially commend the Director of Quality Assurance and Teachers Development, Mr. Martins Akinsolu, and the Zonal Education Officer, Miss Mary Duze, for this initiative that will improve the teaching and learning situations in schools and the quality of education at all levels, because if you don’t train people, you can’t accuse them of not doing the necessary,” he argued.
Miss Mary Duze, the Zonal Education Officer for Yewa North, emphasised earlier in her remarks that where there is no standard, there can be no improvement, and that standard is the foundation for both maintenance and improvement, therefore the necessity for training.
She thanked the Commissioner for his significant interest in Quality Control in all schools and for generously agreeing to declare the training open despite his hectic schedule.
During the program’s overview, the Director of Education, Quality Assurance, and Teachers Development, Mr Martins Akinsolu, stated that the government’s primary concern for the education sector is to improve the quality of education provided to learners at all levels, so training for 132 Public Primary, 35 Public Secondary, 81 approved private primary, and 27 approved private secondary school heads in the zone becomes necessary.
