The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education in Lagos State, Jamiu Alli-Balogun, has directed evaluators from the Office of Education Quality Assurance to monitor schools below the tertiary level in the state closely.
The move is to ensure that students perform better in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination.
A Sunday statement noted that the Coordinating Director, OEQA, Remi Abdul, relayed this directive at a recent management meeting held at Alausa, Ikeja.
He emphasised the importance of effective monitoring and evaluation of schools across the state, stating that evaluators must ensure that teachers and students are punctual and regular while also conveying the government’s directives to schools.
Abdul said, “Despite significant government investment in education, desired results have not been achieved. The narrative has to change; we have to do a lot to change and improve the situation on our part, particularly the performance of learners in external examinations.
“Hence, the commissioner has mandated evaluators to monitor the implementation of compulsory early morning and afternoon lessons, as well as Saturday intervention classes.”
Abdul emphasised that evaluators were expected to visit schools every Thursday to monitor afternoon lessons, while morning lessons were monitored during resumption.
“As we speak, we have visited 109 schools, and we plan to visit all our schools. We can not afford to treat this exercise with levity; the only thing that will show that we have performed this year is the performance of learners in external examinations.
“Any learner that does not participate in the intervention class will not be registered for WASSCE. Likewise, teachers should also be monitored; they should be alive to their responsibilities and show commitment,” he added.
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