Collaboration of school owners can solve educational problem, says Osagie
Mr Olugbenga Familokun, a teacher in a British curriculum school in Lagos, said that government needed to work on how they accreditted schools that were not qualified, to reduce poor learning, teaching and malpractices in WAEC or NECO examinations.
An educationist, Mrs Abimbola Osagie has urged proprietors and school owners to collaborate with each other in order to solve the challenges facing the education system in Nigeria.
Osagie, Proprietor, De Joyland Schools, Lagos, made the plea on Tuesday in Lagos at a two-day International Teachers Conference organised by the Nigerian Teachers Community (NTC) and sponsored by Facebook.
She said that as a school owners, collaboration, rather than competition, and the spirit of teamwork were the solutions to tackle any issue in our schools.
"There is power in collaboration which makes us to be in a better place, reaching out to each other will help us to be stronger in facing the challenges together.
" As school owners, it is very important to give our best to the teachers and students in our various schools.
"I urge us all to look out for school owners that are like minded to achieve a great and standard education system," Osagie said.
Mrs Temitope Bamidele, Proprietor of Pearls Garden School, Ejigbo, Lagos called for more professional development training for teachers by the government and school owners.
Bamidele said that only qualified and professional teachers should be employed in schools.
Mr Olugbenga Familokun, a teacher in a British curriculum school in Lagos, said that government needed to work on how they accreditted schools that were not qualified, to reduce poor learning, teaching and malpractices in WAEC or NECO examinations.
Familokun, also called on the education stakeholders and governments to review schools' curricula into simpler ones so that an average students could do excellently well.
Supreme reports that Nigerian Teachers Community started their online platform in 2016 with over 300,000 members and had won an award for Facebook's Community Acceleration Award in 2021.
The community is a platform where teachers, school owners and education stakeholders share free resources for teaching and networking, to achieve quality education.