We have demonstrated our commitment to providing affordable qualitative education, through the following. • Allocating 23% of our annual budget to Education steadily progressing towards the globally accepted UNESCO recommendation. • Our “Free Education Initiative” in all public primary and secondary schools with the abolition of tuition fees and all forms of levies resulted in a marked increase in enrolment from 292,324 in 2010/2011 to 411,619 in the current academic session. This represents an increase of 40.8%. • Payment of an average of N400 million (annually) to West African Examination Council for the conduct of external examination for our SS3 students in State secondary schools. • .N3.25 billion expended on the purchase of free textbooks and instructional materials which were distributed to all primary and secondary school pupils and students in public schools. . This enables our students to enrich their learning through independent study • Payment of the registration and science practical fees for NABTEB (NTC/NBC) examination for students of government Science and Technical Colleges in the State, as well as End-of-Course examination fees for the final year students in public Science and Technical Colleges. . • Responding to the needs of our growing student population with the construction of 15 out of the planned 28 Model Schools. Each school has full boarding facilities and a carrying capacity of 1,000 students. These schools are expected to commence academic activities in September 2014 • Procurement of sets of furniture for Early Childhood Care Development Education (ECCDE) Centres and supply of 15,652 sets of pupils’ furniture to Public Primary Schools, as well as provision of 10,400 Students’ furniture in Junior Secondary Schools. • Supply of 7,148 sets of teachers’ furniture for both Public Primary and Junior Secondary Schools. • Under the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Rehabilitation of 1,244 classrooms for primary and junior secondary schools has been completed. This programme has impacted over 500 individual schools across the state. • Recruitment of 5256 new teaching and Non-teaching staff to complement the existing pool, especially in the core subjects as well as religious and special needs • . Promotion of 4961 teaching and non teaching staff of the Teaching Service Commission and 7,362 primary school teachers of the SUBEB As a result of our investment and efforts in the education sector, we have continued to record drastic reduction in the drop out rate from the public primary and secondary schools. Performance of our students in West African Examination Council (WAEC) examination has also improved with an increase of 130% . We have also given due attention to tertiary education. An average of N600m is paid monthly to our tertiary institutions, as subvention . This amounts to over N21.6Bn in the last three years. Our highly successful cashless collection policy has generated considerable additional revenue which is being re-invested directly by the institutions. Other initiatives include: • Freezing of fees payable in eight of the nine State owned tertiary institutions to the levels inherited in 2011 thereby making higher education affordable to all. • Easing student travel by the purchase of 54-seater TATA Buses and Hilux Patrol Vehicles, Ambulances and 18-seater Buses for the two State Universities and Moshood Abiola Polytechnic. • Clearing the backlog of seven academic sessions in the Olabisi Onabanjo University (O.O.U) Ago-Iwoye which had concluded without convocations being held . This situation had left over 50,000 graduates of the University at a disadvantaged position in the tough employment market, being unable to formally prove their qualifications, with a certificate. This has now been rectified and certificates are issued as and when due. • N120 million spent on bursary, scholarship and grants to students of Ogun State origin studying in various institutions across the nation.
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