Ondo Deploys Technology To Track Students’ Progression

Ondo State authorities says it has deployed exertion to accurately way and negociate the fig of students and teachers successful some nationalist and backstage schools.

The authorities said the effort would besides assistance way students’ progression per session.

The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun, disclosed this successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) connected Monday successful Akure.

Ajibefun said that the authorities authorities had plans to guarantee subject returns to schools, raising the modular and prime of education, and dealing with different related issues.

The commissioner said that the ministry had started issuing Identity Cards to students successful nationalist schools and would bash the aforesaid for pupils successful backstage schools.

Ajibefun said the ongoing reforms successful the acquisition assemblage were geared towards revamping the authorities industry.

He said the portal would besides assistance way students’ movements, careless of school, and forestall crisp practices.

“We are deploying technology, which volition assistance us. So, the portal, the integer level of the Ministry of Education, is present precise active.

“We volition migrate astir of our activities into the ministry’s portal.

“We volition beryllium capable to bash a batch of things done our integer portal, which volition soon beryllium launched. We volition show schools and their activities connected our integer portal.

“Without technology, it mightiness beryllium challenging to bash respective things that volition bring subject backmost to schools, but we tin bash a batch with the integer portal.

“For instance, we’re looking into the activities of our backstage schools, wherever determination are immoderate unapproved schools.

“Government is precise funny successful these backstage schools due to the fact that of their impact. If they person a affirmative effect, it volition positively interaction society.

“If they person a antagonistic impact, it volition decidedly h2o down each the government’s efforts since they power the larger population,” Ajibefun said.

The Commissioner emphasised the value of backstage schools and the request for prime and standards successful the sector.

“We privation to spot the quality. If it is beneath normal, it means the bulk of our children volition beryllium negatively affected.

“And that is wherefore each schools successful the authorities volition beryllium migrated to our integer portal truthful that they tin beryllium monitored.

“We person a minimum request for registration oregon support of a school. So we volition spell to each the schools to spot what they person successful spot and are doing,” the Commissioner told NAN.

He said galore backstage schools would beryllium re-evaluated to find the situation they are operating in, whether it is harmless oregon unsafe for children, the fig of teachers, and galore different factors. (NAN)