Ondo State Education managers gets Training

The Ondo State Government has commenced the training for education managers as part of the process of enhancing capacity for the implementation of the revised nine-year Basic Education Curriculum in the state.

The review is in response to the current demand of the education system that focuses on the development of human capital to meet the present and future challenges of the society.

Commissioner for Education, Mr. Jide Adejuyigbe, while addressing the participants in Akure, said the need to transform the economy through  sustained educational empowerment of the people informed the decision.

Adejuyigbe said, “The focus of education system all over the world is the development of the human capital required to meet present and future challenges of the society.

“Hence, the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy recognised that Nigeria’s economy could only be transformed and sustained through education that empowers the people.”

He said the training was to position the state to launch education to the next level for quality education delivery and move the sector forward for sustainable development.

According to Adejuyigbe, BEC has the objective of realigning curriculum contents at the primary and junior secondary school levels for continuity.

The curriculum, he added, was to redefine the philosophy of basic education and curriculum contents with a view to addressing emerging issues of values environment, health and technology.

“Viable and credible education system must continuously respond to global and local challenges as well as the peculiarities of individual nations.

“It was on this basis that the National Council on Education directed the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council to revise and restructure the nine-year BEC into 10 teachable, functional and practical oriented subjects, to eliminate redundancy without compromising the quality of education received by learners in consonance with the nation’s transformational agenda,” he said.

OSOPADEC please pay our Bursary

Students from Oil Producing Areas of Ondo State recently held a peaceful protest on January 15th 2015 in Akure, the state capital, over non-payment of their bursary.
President of National Association of ilaje Students and a 300 level student of the University of Lagos, Comrade Victor Adeya, in a statement made available on December 16, 2014, during a meeting held at the Ondo State Area Command Office, the Chairman of the Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC), Pastor Johnson Ogunyemi, promised to pay the students between December 25 and 29, 2014, but failed to keep the promise till date.

He said the commission owes bursary allowance for 2012/2013 academic session and 2013/2014 session, a deprivation that provoked students to embark on the peaceful protest.

According to him: " Following our submission with the Assistant Commissioner of Police that if our money is not paid before December 31 we would embark on a protest on January 8, 2015, we actually went for a protest to the commission. Though the police made relentless efforts to persuade us to abort our protest and demands but we resisted blatantly."

'We are, therefore, calling on our governor to urgently help us and substitute Ogunyemi. He had earlier stated that he doesn't have the courage to present the budget before the governor for approval, this shows that he is incompetent.'

Commenting on the allegations that the students displayed unruly behaviour to the police he said: ' We did not take weapons, we did not attack the police. The policemen that were injured were those ones that jumped out of their moving van to show their military competence, to prove to Ogunyemi that they deserved the money he paid them and to save him from humiliation.

We plead with the Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC) to please look into these matter urgently.

NDE empowers 20 graduates on Solar energy scheme in Ondo

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) on Wednesday 28 of January 2015, in Akure, the capital of Ondo state, graduated 20 unemployed graduates in the Solar Energy Training Scheme (SETS) to improve on the erractic power supply and provide opportunities for self- reliance.

This Scheme was initiated to empower the unemployed youths in the country and to provide an alternative for the erratic power supply of the nation that would cater for the needs of the people at large.

The Director-General of rhe Directorate, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, stated that SETS was one of the renewable energy training schemes designed to generate employment for unemployed graduates of tertiary institutions across Nigeria, which would in diverse ways improve the economy of the nation.

The Ondo State Coordinator of NDE, Joseph Olayinka said tje schemes were also to explore new areas of job creation for youths to develop crtical sectors of the economy and meet multiple needs.

According to him, "Energy is one of the essential infrastructure components needed for urban and rural  economic development and there is rhe enormous demands for it in Nigeria and the sector potential for employment.

So, NDE sought for other means of energy production and adopted Renewable energy Training Scheme as one of its strategies for employment generation."

He explained further that SETS equips unemployed graduates with skills for energy harvest, installation and maintenance of solar power facilities for sustainable self-reliance and to improve electricity power generation for economic development in Nigeria.

"Tosay, a number of 700 unemployed grafuates across the federation are trained in the design, procurement, installation and maintenance of solar equipment for its harvesting foe electricity generation.

This is our modest contribution of relevant skilled manpower to development and improvement of our energy sector, so i urge the graduats to become vibrant wmployers of labour that will positively affect theis generation," he said.

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2,000 teachers needed in Ondo state

Ondo State Government has approved the recruitment of 2,000 teaching and non- teaching staff intoo the Public Secondary Schools accross the State. Job Title: Teacher Job Location: Ondo State Job Slot: 2,000 Job Requirements: A) Teaching: . Minimum of University Degree (Education) or NCE in any discipline . Applicant with PGDE can also apply

B) Non-Teaching . Minimum of Pry 6 certificate or SSCE The following Documents are to Be attached: . Primary school leaving certificate . Evidence of LGA of Origin . Letter of Identification from applicants . Applicants birth certificate Deadline: shiffted to September 20th, 2014 Aptitude test is now Tuesday 30th September, 2014 at Owena, Owo, Oka, Ikare, Ondo, Odigbo, Okitipupa and Irene centers Click Here To Apply Online Note: Interview will be by September 26th, 2014. Source/Photos : naijaparrot.com ondostategov.ng