What has took place to Osun mega colleges constructed through instantaneous previous governor, Rauf Aregbesola? Three years into the tenure of governor Gboyega Oyetola, each events are buying and selling blames over the nation of the schools, particularly the one at Iwo, which regarded to have been deserted considering Aregbesola left office.
As section of Aregbesola’s efforts to uplift training and tackle the trouble of out-of-school children, the former governor delivered new insurance policies and constructed new schools, such as eleven mega faculties throughout the three senatorial districts in the state. The intervention was once to have an impact on primary and secondary education, enhance teacher-to-students ratio, grant facilities, educating and getting to know aids.
Each of the mega faculties has seventy two school rooms with capability for 3,000 senior secondary students. The mega faculties have been phase of the complete schooling infrastructure reforms of the Aregbesola administration.
The reforms had been agreed upon after an training summit, which used to be chaired by way of Prof Wole Soyinka in March 2011, few months after assumption of office.
Three of the colleges – Ataoja Grammar School, Fakunle Unity School and Osogbo Grammar School – are in Osogbo, the nation capital. Others are Ilesa Grammar School, Ilesa; Wole Soyinka Government High School, Ejigbo; Akinorun Grammar School, Ikirun; High School, Ila; Adventist Grammar School, Ede; Oduduwa Secondary School, Ile-Ife; Ayedaade Grammar School, Ikire; and Iwo High School. The one in Iwo was once at the beginning referred to at Baptist High School, Iwo. It used to be however, relocated after the hijab disaster that rocked the school. So, time was once wasted in the route of figuring out on a new location. That explains why this unique college was once now not completed.
Other interventions beneath Aregbesola blanketed building of 28 new storey structures of center colleges consisting of 764 classrooms, 21 quadrangle structures of basic schools, consisting of 531 classrooms, building of 143 blocks of between two and 10 school room buildings consisting of 1,550 classrooms, on the whole for rural settlements, as nicely as rehabilitation of 215 historic faculty structures to produce 1,213 school rooms throughout the state.
To complement these efforts, the authorities employed about 3,230 instructors in 2013 into public basic and center faculties with the aid of pulling together the economic sources from Osun’s treasury, bond issuance, capital receipts from Federal Government and the National Assembly representatives (in the first term), really worth about N11 billion.
The undertaking used to be additionally predicated on a succession layout that would take care of administration and upkeep of the new schools, acceptable staffing and feasible involvement of non-public region contributors in the vicinity of lodging and transportation of college students to make sure qualitative education.
Aside from the mega schools, different insurance policies added by using the Aregbesola-led authorities protected enforcement of a single uniform for college students in public foremost and secondary schools, re-classification, renaming and merger of schools, amongst others.
However, when Oyetola got here on board, his administration reversed some of the insurance policies of his predecessor in the training sector. The governor, for instance, reversed the 4-5-3-4 academic machine delivered by using the Aregbesola administration to 6-3-3-4.