Lagos plans acceptable 2023/2024 academic calendar for primary, secondary schools
The Lagos State Government says it will prioritise harmonized and standardised instructional days of learning for all schools in the state for the 2023/2024 academic calendar.It explained that such would ensure that children have the minimum standard of learning hours and days.
The Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, said this during a stakeholders’ meeting in Alausa, Ikeja, on Thursday.
She noted that it was important for stakeholders to deliberate, harmonise and standardise the school calendar of both public and private schools in the state.
She added that the engagement would develop a fit-for-purpose academic calendar to ensure that students would spend productive instructional hours in the classrooms and also serve as a pre-emptive measure in planning for unforeseen events and circumstances.
“In as much as the calendar may seem like a very minute detail when it comes to larger issues we have within the education space, the calendar is very important.
‘’Over the course of this administration, we as an office have been able, in collaboration with our stakeholders, to ensure that the calendar is enforced; that there is a greater understanding and that at the end of the day everything concerning the calendar is to support things that occur within schools.
“This is to ensure that children have the minimum standard of learning days as well as hours and most importantly standardisation across the board not just in public schools but private schools,” she said.
Seriki-Ayeni commended the stakeholders for their compliance to the 2022/23 academic calendar, noting that it had been the most compliant year. She also noted that there had been better communication between OEQA and the schools.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Director, Planning, Research and Statistics, OEQA, Mr Remi Abdul, noted that the stakeholders engagement had become a yearly event to chart the course of progress for educational activities in both the public and private schools below the tertiary level in the state.
He noted that the meeting would be an interactive and practical session while the first session would focus on the appraisal of the current academic calendar, adding that there would be a plenary session and finally an appraisal and recommendation session to round off the stakeholders engagement.
The director further seek the understanding and commitment of the stakeholders in actualising the mandate of OEQA to create a safe environment for pupils to learn and develop.
The Chairman, Lagos State Universal Basic Education, Mr. Wahab Alawiye-King, represented by a director in the agency, Mrs Kolade, stated that the harmonised calendar would ensure that everyone worked on the same page.
The State Officer, National Examination Council, Mr Adebayo Ayinde, commended the state government through OEQA for organising the programme.
He noted that the stakeholders’ engagement showed how futuristic and important the state government was taking the issue of education.
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