Really great work from Alex and the team as always! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Read it. First impressions:
First, it reads as written with primary and secondary in mind. Tertiary should either be specifically covered (academic and non-academic pathways) or deliberately left off. I’d advise the latter because that’s a completely different beast.
Second, how is this structure actually different from what we already have? The SMO seems to be the key difference, but we have similar bodies already (SUBEB/SBMC) so what changes, and who sits on the SMOs? I suspect that a lot of the current system’s problems are implementation and enforcement so the real question to me is, how do we fix that?
Third, in my opinion, too much authority is still retained by government. My fear is it introduces bureaucracy into the school operational flow. My proposed structure: schools retain operational autonomy, the SMO acts as a statutory governing board over a local-government cluster of schools, and government funds via a per-student grant to an approved list of schools that meet quality requirements. Let’s reduce government’s role to funding and regulatory oversight.
I've spent the last several months researching, travelling, and studying why countries like Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada and Finland built some of the world's best public education systems.
One thing became clear:
Nigeria doesn't just have an education problem. We have a school management problem.
Today, I'm releasing a white paper that proposes a new way to transform our public schools, keeping them publicly owned while introducing world-class management and accountability.
This isn't about politics.
It's about giving every Nigerian child the opportunity to attend a world-class public school.
I hope this sparks one of the most important conversations our country has had about education.
Read it. Criticise it. Improve it. Share it.
If we get education right, we change Nigeria.
Here is the link https://t.co/EViU52FKFi
1. Seek for the next big opportunity that is right before you.
2. Build a daily confession of its present reality in your life mix it with thanksgiving and praise.
3. Go to God for wisdom to teach you how to get it done.
4. Go to work obeying his instructions.
Cyprus, Bodrum, Sicily, the Balearic Islands, Nice, Monaco, Marseille, Oran, Crete, Tunis, Sardinia, Malta, Dubrovnik, Tangier, Alexandria, Beirut, Antalya, Corsica, Mykonos, and the Amalfi Coast.
The list is endless. Go explore!
Bellingham giving the penalty up to Saka for his hat-trick, despite Jude needing just one goal to break the record goals scored by an Englishman at a World Cup.
Our future captain 👏🏴
It's not fucking high school anymore. 8 billion people need to change the conversation of what "success" looks like. It's not to make a billion dollars, it's to wake up in the morning and be in a good mood.