Oyo launches ‘School on Air’ in public secondary schools

IN line with the global ICT revolution, the Oyo State government through the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology last week launched an ICT solution tagged ‘School on Air’ in all public secondary schools across the state to advance educational learning.

The Commissioner for Education, Professor Adeniyi Olowofela, said the ‘School on Air’ is a unified, controlled computer programme where studied video incorporating 16 subjects were recently deployed to all the 635 Public Secondary Schools in the state with aim of getting the SSS 3 students adequately prepared for the 2018 WAEC and NECO SSCE examinations as well as enhancing effective learning of other students, most especially in areas where some subject teachers are not well disposed.

He noted that the initiative is in tandem with goal of enriching the schools’ curriculum and ensuring that the children are well equipped to fit into the challenges of the modern social and technical dispensation.

Professor Olowofela said: “It is no gainsaying that illiterates of today are not those that can’t read or write. The scope has been expanded to include inability to operate computers and other related Information, Communication and Technology gadgets.

“A body like the Ministry of Education would therefore be (failing) in its responsibilities if it is making no remarkable effort to liberate the school age children at a time when every activity is now e-based in areas like governance, banking, commerce, information sourcing, examinations and so on.

Recently, various laudable programmes lined up would be rolled out. This would place our students on a pedestal higher than those of their colleagues anywhere in the world, thereby living up to the sobriquet ‘The Pacesetter State’.

“The first of its kind is the ‘School on Air’ study videos incorporating 16 subjects which include: Mathematics, English Language, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics, Government, Literature in English, Civic Education, Financial Accounting, Agricultural Science, Commerce and Geography.

“It was recently deployed to all the 635 public secondary schools in the state to make the students learn fast and retain whatever they have learnt because of audiovisual effects of the learning application.”

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