EDUCATION: The education ministry in the State of Osun has given its stewardship in the last eight years of the government of Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola.
The Commissioner of Education, Mr. Wasiu Kola Omotunde Young stated this at a Press Conference at Osogbo while appraising the transformation and restructuring carried out by the state government in the past eight years of the administration.
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He poured encomiums on the government for the’Opon IMO'(Tablet of Knowledge) introduced into the Senior Secondary School to aid students in their learning skills. According to him, this gesture has improved the quality of educational performances of the students in all the major subject they sat for in their Senior Secondary Exterminations.
This in addition to the feeding of over 250,000 pupils in the primary schools, sponsorship of medical students to Ukraine, architectural beauty of schools.
The best result so far in the state before Ogbeni Aregbesola took in 2011 was in 2010 when WAEC rated percentage was 15.6%.
“When this government came on board, it carried out a holistic structuring with training of Principals, Head Teachers, and Teachers with modern school buildings with modern equipments like; libraries, laboratories, computers, modern rest rooms.
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This has tremendous positive impacts in the 2018 WAEC results as follows;
Mathematics – 70%
Further Maths. – 75.2%
English Language – 53.65%
Biology – 59.2%
Chemistry. – 54.44%
Physics. – 75.22%
Yoruba. – 67.25%
Agric Science. – 79.30%
In the pipeline is to make Yoruba Language a major language to be spoken and thought from primary schools to higher schools of learning. It would no longer be regarded as a second language.
The Ogbeni Aregbesola had in no doubt achieved far above its predecessors
in educational performances that he would be remembered years to come.
www.sojworld.com (c) Oct.10, 2018
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