GoldenNewsNG
  • Home
  • News
  • Education
  • Business
  • Jobs
  • Daily Guides
  • About Us
  • Advertise with Us
  • Home
  • News
  • Education
  • Business
  • Jobs
  • Daily Guides
  • About Us
  • Advertise with Us
No Result
View All Result
Golden News
No Result
View All Result

Education That Works: Lagos State Launches Comprehensive Schools Programme

GoldenNewsNG by GoldenNewsNG
January 11, 2024
in Education, Featured, Headline, News, World News
Reading Time: 3 mins read
Education That Works: Lagos State Launches Comprehensive Schools Programme
13
SHARES
Advertisements

Education That Works: Lagos State Launches Comprehensive Schools Programme

As part of its promise to make education a major pillar in the building of a greater Lagos State, the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has launched The Lagos State Comprehensive Schools Programme.

Education That Works: Lagos State Launches Comprehensive Schools Programme

READ ALSO

NCDMB to Train 3,700 Nigerian Youths in Digital Skills for Oil and Gas Industry

Black Market Dollar to Naira Exchange Rate Today 29th Sept 2025

According to Folashade Adefisayo, the Lagos State Commissioner for Education, the programme is basically a response to the high number of students dropping out of the public secondary school system in the state: “We noticed a heavy attrition rate among our senior secondary school students.”, she explains, “Many were not resuming in SS1, after JS3, and even throughout Secondary Schools, there was a steady reduction in enrolment.”

Statistics show that for every 10 students enrolled in JS1, only 3 make it to SS3, with just 1 student eventually graduating. Many of the dropouts get into informal vocational training and street level hawking and trading-related activities, exposing them to social vices and crime. The programme, Adefisayo insists, offers such students an option: “Instead of going into low-level training, stay with us and we’ll give you first-class training in vocational skills in the safe, controlled environment school provides.”

Above and beyond addressing the school dropout situation in the state, the programme is a model that is designed to unlock the unique intellectual competency of each student and is suited to their intelligence profile and local context. “In reality, there are many levels of measuring intelligence and how people learn.”, Peter Bankole, Chairman of the overall planning committee for the programme, iterates, “We aim to make Lagos the state of choice when it comes to employability and support for students going through the programme.”

The programme itself employs a two-pronged approach of general academic and vocational education. The vocational training begins in earnest at the resumption of Senior Secondary School and runs through its three-year duration. It covers five broad subject categories in the pilot phase; Agriculture, Tech and Digital skills, Beauty and Events, Building and Construction, and Media and Entertainment.

“The students will have access to hands-on training that incorporates technology.”, Ayopeju Njideaka, Chairman, Curriculum Sub-Committee for Lagos Comprehensive Schools reveals, “In addition to learning skills in agriculture, fashion designing, software development, film-making and others, they will be taught financial literacy, entrepreneurship, communication, marketing and sales, and digital literacy, to enhance their employability and economic independence.”

Education That Works: Lagos State Launches Comprehensive Schools Programme

What sets the programme apart from the already-existing technical colleges in the state is the ease of access offered to students. Instead of the rigors of trying to enrol in colleges in relatively distant locations as Ikeja, Badagry, Ikorodu, Lagos Island and Epe, (acronymed as IBILE), “The programme offers the chance to remain within the formal academic structure and obtain training similar to that in the technical colleges.”, says Abayomi Abolaji, Permanent Secretary in the Lagos State Ministry of Education.

“The pilot phase has commenced in 12 schools across Lagos’ 6 Education Districts (2 schools per district). District

1; Alimosho Senior High School in Alimosho and Dairy Farm Secondary School in Agege. District

2; Majidun Senior High School in Ikorodu and Angus Memorial College, Igbobi. District

3; Ogunmodede Senior College in, Epe and Wahab Folawiyo Senior High School, Ikoyi. District

4; Lagos City Senior College, Sabo, Yaba and Government College Eric Moore, Surulere. District

5; Bola Ige Millenium Senior Secondary School in Ajeromi-Ifelodun and Ajara Comprehensive High School in Badagry. For the last district (6), we have Birch Freeman High School Mushin and Ijeshatedo Grammar School, Okota/Isolo.

We hope to expand to 50 by September, 2022, with the ultimate goal of establishing the programme in every public secondary school in the state.” Abolaji concluded.

Education That Works: Lagos State Launches Comprehensive Schools Programme

Regarding the sustainability of the programme, Adefisayo says legal documentation is ongoing but believes the critical involvement of the private sector alongside communities and other relevant parties, will foster accountability, and the durability of the Lagos State Comprehensive Schools Programme.

 

“It is education that provides credible, multiple pathways to life skills; to give the student a job for life, a career for life and a living for life.”

Education That Works: Lagos State Launches Comprehensive Schools Programme

📢 JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP 📢 JOIN OUR TELEGRAM CHANNEL
Previous Post

Latest UTME News, JAMB Exam 2022,JAMB Registration 2022,For Today 15 March 2022

Next Post

Npower Update : How to qualify for NEXIT Loan disbursement

Related Posts

NCDMB to Train 3,700 Nigerian Youths in Digital Skills for Oil and Gas Industry

NCDMB Digitalization Initiative

NCDMB to Train 3,700 Nigerian Youths in Digital Skills for Oil and Gas Industry The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring...

Read moreDetails

Black Market Dollar to Naira Exchange Rate Today 29th Sept 2025

Black Market Dollar to Naira

Detailed report on Black Market Dollar to Naira Exchange Rate Today, Monday, 29th September 2025   GoldenNewsNg reports that the...

Read moreDetails

What the Law Says About Spraying Money in Nigeria – Penalties, Alternatives & CBN Act

Spraying Money in Nigeria

What the Law Says About Spraying Money in Nigeria Spraying money at weddings, birthdays, and other celebrations has become a...

Read moreDetails

World Bank to Approve $750m Loans for Nigeria

World Bank

World Bank to Approve $750m Loans for Nigeria on September 30 The World Bank is set to approve two loans...

Read moreDetails

PENGASSAN Declares Nationwide Strike as Dangote Refinery Sacks Over 800 Nigerian Workers

2024:  Dangote Graduate Trainee Programme

PENGASSAN has Declared Nationwide Strike as Dangote Refinery Sacks Over 800 Nigerian Workers. GoldenNewsNg reports that The Petroleum and Natural...

Read moreDetails

Link For NJFP Unmatched Fellows Revalidation For NJFP 2.0 Enrollment

NJFP Beneficiaries To Get 100k Monthly Stipend And All You Need To Know

Link For NJFP Unmatched Fellows Revalidation For NJFP 2.0 Enrollment The Federal Government has begun the revalidation process for unmatched...

Read moreDetails

Full List of INEC Chairmen in Nigeria From 1998 Till Date

Full List of INEC Chairmen in Nigeria (1998–Present) and Their Achievements

Full List of INEC Chairmen in Nigeria From 1998 Till Date   The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is Nigeria’s...

Read moreDetails

SMEDAN Opens Free CAC Business Registration for 250,000 Small Enterprises (Direct Link to Apply)

SMEDAN Opens Free CAC Business Registration for 250,000 Small Enterprises (Direct Link to Apply)

The Federal Government of Nigeria has launched a landmark initiative to provide free Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) business name registration...

Read moreDetails

FG Flags Off Free CAC Registration for Small Businesses – Apply Now

Free CAC Registration for Small Business

The Federal Government of Nigeria has launched a Free CAC Registration for Small Businesses.   GoldenNewsNg reports that the program...

Read moreDetails

Dollar to Naira Exchange Rate Today 27th Sept 2025

The latest Dollar to Naira Exchange Rate Today 27th Sept 2025 can be accessed below..   GoldenNewsNg reports that the...

Read moreDetails
Load More
Next Post
NPower Nexit Update Today 26th May 2023

Npower Update : How to qualify for NEXIT Loan disbursement

SEARCH ADS

Latest Posts

NCDMB Digitalization Initiative
Headline

NCDMB to Train 3,700 Nigerian Youths in Digital Skills for Oil and Gas Industry

Black Market Dollar to Naira
business

Black Market Dollar to Naira Exchange Rate Today 29th Sept 2025

Spraying Money in Nigeria
Daily Guides

What the Law Says About Spraying Money in Nigeria – Penalties, Alternatives & CBN Act

World Bank
Headline

World Bank to Approve $750m Loans for Nigeria

2024:  Dangote Graduate Trainee Programme
business

PENGASSAN Declares Nationwide Strike as Dangote Refinery Sacks Over 800 Nigerian Workers

NJFP Beneficiaries To Get 100k Monthly Stipend And All You Need To Know
Headline

Link For NJFP Unmatched Fellows Revalidation For NJFP 2.0 Enrollment

Full List of INEC Chairmen in Nigeria (1998–Present) and Their Achievements
General Information

Full List of INEC Chairmen in Nigeria From 1998 Till Date

SMEDAN Opens Free CAC Business Registration for 250,000 Small Enterprises (Direct Link to Apply)
business

SMEDAN Opens Free CAC Business Registration for 250,000 Small Enterprises (Direct Link to Apply)

Free CAC Registration for Small Business
business

FG Flags Off Free CAC Registration for Small Businesses – Apply Now

business

Dollar to Naira Exchange Rate Today 27th Sept 2025

© 2024 Golden News

  • About Us
  • Advertise with Us
  • Contact Us
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms And Conditions
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Education
  • Business
  • Jobs
  • Daily Guides
  • About Us
  • Advertise with Us

© 2024 Golden News