Aregbesola Inaugurates Management Committees For Schools

EDUCATION

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has inaugurated a community-based management, drawn from all the local governments in the state for effective maintenance of public school facilities across the state.

The communities are grouped in three categories for all the local governments (elementary, middle and high schools).

While speaking at the inauguration held at the Government Technical College in Oshogbo, the governor said the aim is for the communities to take full responsibilities of the schools.

Describing the communities as the original owner of the schools, he said this will aid easy management and maintenance, His words: “Education is very critical because it is an area where no society can afford to fail; it is only through education that the society can meet up the present and safeguard the future.”

The governor, however, charged committee members to source for funds to maintain and manage the schools without creating unnecessary burden on parents and pupils but to find a way of assisting them, to identify the school needs and lapses so as to find lasting solutions to them, while also explaining to them not to see their appointment into the various committees as a political reward but a call to be part of history.

He added, ”It makes good sense to know that community-based approach to school management is the best approach anywhere in the world as it is effective in the management of our schools.

“We are spending so much in the education sector because education is critical to every society, it is an area where no society can afford to fail, the education sector is important because it is through education that a society can meet up with the present and safeguard the future.”

“Education is the primary foundation of every development, the technology of building, architecture science among others are acquired through education, so there is nothing you can do without education”

“With the trend in the world, the whole world is now going digital and one can not but conclude that the future belongs to only the educated”

He, however, urged them not to see the assignment as a political reward, but to see it as a call to be part of history that will change the face of education in Osun State.