Meanwhile, the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board’s, LASUBEB- EKOEXCEL has called for more cooperation from parents and guardians in raising well-educated children who will fare well in the 21st-century knowledge-based economy and contribute meaningfully to the nation’s growth as adults.
In a message to mark this year’s Children’s Day, LASUBEB Board Chair, Wahab Alawiye-King acknowledged the complementary roles of parents and guardians in fulfilling its mission of improving learning outcomes among pupils and developing professional competencies of teachers and school administrators with innovative technology, the EKOEXCEL programme would do more with parents’ support and cooperation.
Alawiye-King recalled that that during the COVID-19 enforced lockdown in 2020, parents cooperated to ensure the success of EKOEXCEL@home initiative, which provided continued access to learning and sought the same collaboration from them now in terms of after-school care for pupils, assisting them in revising, doing their homework, and to stop sending them on errands that would prevent them from resting and studying.
He noted that since its inauguration in 2019, EKOEXCEL has recorded notable achievements, including moving over 18,000 head teachers and teachers from analogue to digital teaching, using tablets and updated curricula, while over 14,000 primary school teachers from 1,011 public primary schools have been captured under the scheme.
Alawiye-King who is currently in Britain, the United Kingdom, where he’s attending the 2022 Education World Forum (EWF) featuring education ministers from over 100 countries, international organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations, explained that the intervention had also aided uniformity and strict adherence to the curriculum as teachers’ tablets are preloaded with lessons and content that can be effectively monitored for standardisation across Lagos’ public primary schools.
He reiterated EKOEXCEL’s commitment to excellence, felicitated the children and promised that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration would prioritize their welfare and education.
