As Oyetola Reverses Some Osun's Education Policies
Yinka Kolawole reports that Governor Gboyega Oyetola has granted the request of Osun people as he reversed some of the policies made by the immediate past governor in the education sector, which generated controversies in the past
Meanwhile at the first meeting of the State Executive Council, a decision was reached on Education Review Policy and the state reversed the single uniform policy, mixed schools, 4-5-3-4 system and retained Opon Imo also known as Tablet of Knowledge. She added that “the council agreed that the state government will do well to allow every school return to its old established and recognised public uniform.
The council was said to have approved the reversal of ‘High School’ to the old nomenclature ‘Grammar School’. The governor had earlier constituted the panel led by a renowned educationist, Professor Olu Aina to look at some extant education policies in the state, with a mandate to review and come up with workable recommendations that could further improve the state’s education system
“That was what led to the Policy Review Roundtable Summit, the report of which we are receiving today. We are prepared to do what will improve the lots of our people and protect the future of our children. He noted that the panel proposed 11 recommendations within the context of the national education policy and global best practices, saying that for instance, the merging of primary five and six, though laudable for reason of school feeding initiative, violated the 6-3-3-4 structure.
“Even though education is on the concurrent legislative list of the Constitution of Nigeria, a state policy should be closely aligned to, and flow from the national policy so that products of our education policy and practice are not disadvantaged,” Aina added. In a chat with journalists in his office, the commissioner described the policy reversal as yielding to yearnings of the people of the state.
“Moreso, the Department for International Development after carrying out a survey across the state, recommended to the governor a review of the present education policies. Reacting to the policy reversal, the old students association of one of the affected school, Ilesa Grammar School said the school is back.
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