Committee on schools calendar, curriculum harmonisation submits report

The Standing Committee inaugurated by the Lagos State Government on the harmonisation of Schools’ Calendar, Examinations and Curriculum on Monday submitted its recommendations.
The Chairman of the Committee, Dr. Femi Ogunsanya, who led other members of the committee to submit the report to the state Commissioner for Education, Olayinka Oladunjoye, appreciated the efforts of the state government in harmonising schools’ calendar and curriculum.
The committee further pledged to work with the government in ensuring that the disparity between private and public schools is reduced to the barest minimum.
Ogunsanya noted that the inauguration of the committee represents another first of the so many firsts being recorded by the state government in its efforts to move the education sector forward.
She thanked the government for the rare opportunity given to serve.
Ogunsanya also promised to assist the teachers in public schools by availing them of any the opportunity of seminars and workshops that will train them in the best classroom practices.
Oladunjoye commended members of the Committee for a job well done, adding that she had no doubt whatsoever that they would deliver on the assignment given to them.
She promised to study the recommendations and ensure that a strategy is fashioned out on how to execute their various recommendations.
The standing committee was set up on October 25, 2013, with the terms of reference of looking into the harmonisation of schools’ calendar, curriculum and the Basic Education Certificate Examination for public and private Schools in the state.
The Committee was made up of representatives of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools­, Catholic, Ansar-ud-Deen, Redeemed, League of Muslim Schools, Association of International Schools in Nigeria, Association of Private School Owners, Methodist Baptist Association of Formidable Educational Developments as well as the Nigerian Union of Teachers and officials of the State Ministry of Education and Office of Special Adviser on Education, with Ogunsanya as its chairman.