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  • Caleb School celebrates WASSCE results

    Proprietor of the Caleb British International School (CBIS) Lekki, Prince Ola Adebogun, has rewarded teachers for the outstanding performance of the school’s SS3 pupils in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

    The school recorded 100 per cent A1 in Further Mathematics, French, Yoruba and Financial Accounting, while; A1, B2 and B3 in 10 subjects (Christian Religious Studies, Tourism, Food and Nutrition, Biology, Fine Art, Catering Craft, Technical Drawing, Geography, Agricultural Science and ICT).

    In Mathematics, Civic Education and Government, the school recorded distinctions and two credits; whiel in Economics, and Physics, it had distinctions and one credits.  Most candidates recorded distinctions and few credits in English and Chemistry as well.

    A statement by the school noted that CBIS emphasises excellence and high moral values in its bid to raise godly leaders.

  • School celebrates graduating pupils

    Last Friday, Prudence Schools Yaba celebrated six of its SS3 pupils who cleared all their papers in the 2018 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) at the Lagos Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja.

    The pupils, the second set of graduands of Prudence City College were feted alongside pre-school, primary graduates of the Prudence Private School as well as junior secondary school (JSS3) graduates of the college at the well-attended event.

    All the graduating pupils impressed guests with their confidence and eloquence while introducing themselves and their future ambitions.

    Chairman, governing board of the school, Mr Joseph Babatunde said the school’s success was hinged on the personal attention to pupils and the emphasis on quality above profit.  He said the school neither compromises on standard nor cuts corners.

    Babatunde, a former Chairman of AG Leventis, said: “The school offers an exclusive type of education – exclusive in the sense that the primary school has a philosophy of one-on-one – one teacher to one student; so also the college. That is why we have had very good results in the primary school the last 10 years and the five year old college has recorded 100 percent pass since last year that we started the WAEC examination.

    “We don’t cut corners here and that has been what we emphasis to our parents. With my experience in the private sector, if you are not in a hurry to make money, you will not cut corners. Last year we presented 9 children for WAEC. We were approached by other schools who wanted to join our children to sit for the exam but we turn them down because we cannot guarantee the type of education that the children have received in their schools.  That is why our 100 percent is not polluted.”

    The school’s outgoing head boy, Toluwani Akeju, thanked his teachers for the academics and moral values they taught him while in the school.  He described his three years there as wonderful.

    “My stay in the school has been a very wonderful one. It has been astonishing. They teach good education. I spent three years there,” said the 16 years old.

    chairman of the occasion, Chief Oluyinka Kufile, the Aro of Egbaland, urged parents not to give up on Nigeria, but train their wards to have faith in the country and work towards its development.

    The event featured presentations by the pupils, alumni, testimonials by parents, awards to parents and pupils, and a documentary about its facilities, which ended with an appeal by Head of School, Mrs Imabong Udofia, to parents and guests to enhance its sporting facilities.

  • Oyo hands over new model schools to boards– Ajimobi

    Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State says the newly constructed model schools in the state will be handed over to the Schools Governing Board ( SGB ) by Match ending.

    Ajimobi made the disclosure during an inspection tour of the school’s projects in Ibadan.

    Newsmen report that Ajimobi visited two of the projects situated at Oremeji area of Mokola and Bashorun in Ibadan metropolis.

    Newsmen report that Ajimobi also visited the   newly constructed model schools at Oba Akinbiyi High School, Ibadan and Islamic High School, Bashorun, Ibadan.

    He, however, did not visit Baptist High School, Saki.

    The governor said that the projects were expected to be completed soon and would be received from the contractors in few days for handing over to the board.

    He said his administration was poised at constructing six model schools, adding that three additional schools would be constructed before the expiration of his tenure.

    “Our administration is poised at ensuring the modernisation of the state. This is part of our method of modernising education in the state.

    “We are modernising education in terms of content, curriculum and quality environment for students, which we believe is very essential,” he said.

    Ajimobi said that his administration had improved upon the curriculum in schools and several other educational reforms evolved.

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    The governor said that the efforts were aimed at bringing overall improvement in the quality of education which had already been yielding fruitful results.

    According to him, you will recall that in 2017, we have the best result in West African Senior School Certificate Examination ( WASSCE ).

    in the last 18 months.

    “No matter the rhetoric of our detractors, we have improved on education in the state. “We have the overall best students, both male and female from the state.”

    He said the model schools were another feathers to the cap of educational improvement in the state, adding that they had disappointed those who never believed they could do it.

    “We are doing Catch them Young, School Feeding Programme supported by the Federal Government and Oyo State Model Education System Intervention ( OYOMESI ) aimed at improving upon the character of students.

    “We have also evolved the school governing board to encourage participation of parents, associations, communities and students in the management of schools,” he said.

    Ajimobi cautioned the detractors, whose stock-in-trade was to lie against the government, to desist from such and embrace developmental politics.

    NAN

  • PS lauds Lagos SSCE results

    The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Mr. Adesina Odeyemi, has praised the improved performance of public school pupils in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) since 2014.

    He said public schools have moved from a poor performance of 21.22 per cent in 2014 to achieving 66 per cent credit and above in at least five subjects, including English and Mathematics in this year’s examination, a performance better than the national average of 59.22 per cent.

    In 2015, the state achieved 37.27 per cent; and 50.41 per cent in 2016.

    He gave the statistics while addressing school counselors during a training on subject selection held last Thursday at the SUBEB Hall, Maryland.

    Lagos has made tremendous progress in external examinations since 2015. The Permanent Secretary, who made this known, revealed that the state’s performance at this year’s WASSCE was 66 per cent pass in at least five subjects including English and Mathematics adding that compared to the 50.41 per cent in 2016, 37.27 per cent in 2015 and 21.22 per cent in 2014, it was evident that the education sector has been making geometric progress.

    Speaking at a workshop with the theme “Relevance of Subject Selection in Secondary Schools”, Odeyemi opined that it was designed to deepen knowledge and widen the horizon of Counsellors in the state to help them assist  Senior Secondary School pupils in the choice of subjects vis a vis their future ambitions.

    According to him, “the theme is apt because this is the time to interface with students of SS.1 in order to know their future ambition, and appropriately advise them. A look at their performances in their Basic Education Certificate Examination will indicate their subjects of strength and their area of weakness”.

    He admonished the counselors to bring their knowledge of the requirements of the examination bodies such as WAEC, NECO, GCE and JAMB in relation to the admission criteria of tertiary institutions at home and abroad to bear in advising the students in the selection and proper combination of subjects for Ordinary Level Certificate Examination which is a very important pre-requisite for admission into tertiary institutions.

    Odeyemi further said the steady improvement in the education sector of the state could only be beneficial to the students and the state when it translates to future success of the students concerned. Students offering Science, Humanities or Business subjects must be seen to belong to their relevant classes except in subjects that are compulsory for all students.

    He advised that, a situation where a student will mix subjects in Humanities and Business together and the passes recorded are useless in pursuance of future education should be avoided.

    Earlier in her welcome address, Director, Child Guidance, School Counselling and Special Education, Mrs Ketimu Musa, said the Ministry assembled seasoned counsellors to take participants in topics like structure and subjects of the new curricum, subject selection for the four fields of study; administration and streaming using the aptitude test and strategies to curb the conflict between skills acquisition and formal education in our secondary schools.

     

     

     

  • Group donates 300 WASSCE forms in Epe

    A socio-development Group, Epe Renaissance 2015, has donated 300 forms for November/December diet of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) to youths in all 30 wards in Epe.

    According to the group, the gesture was to complement the philanthropic efforts of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who donated to social welfare institutions during his birthday.

    President of the Group, Mr Abiodun Muritala, said 10 forms were given to candidates in each ward.

    He expressed optimism that the intervention would increase the level of literacy of the indigenes and encourage indigent families to send their wards to school.

    Since the introduction of the scholarship, Muritala said over 800 youths from Epe had benefited from the gesture.

    The president implored the beneficiaries to put in their best into the exam, promising that group would offer scholarship to the best candidate in each local government and local council development area within the Division to further their education in the higher institution.

    He urged public-spirited individuals in the Division to volunteer their time to mentor and share knowledge with the youth outside the regular academic classes to augment what they were being taught in school.