EDUCATION SUMMIT: No sense building 20 mega schools when a thousand other schools are dilapidated — Ondo Education Commissioner
Determined to reposition education in Ondo State, the government convoked a summit where over 2,000 stakeholders brainstormed for two days and came out with 19-point recommendations. In this interview, the state Education, Science and Technology Commissioner, Femi Agagu, speaks on what government wishes to achieve with the summit . What do you intend to achieve with the Education Summit Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, when he came into office, identified five key areas where he wants to make real change, and education happened to be one of them. So, one of the first steps he took was to set up committees to look at how to address the issues in the sectors. A key recommendation of the committee handling education was that there was need for Education Summit. The summit was to look at the functionality of our education, to look at technology growth, to look at the issue of curriculum to determine how it has been able to accommodate those things that make education functional. ...