THE Oyo Sate chapter of the All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Public Schools, (ANCOPS), has disclosed that the School Governing Boards (SGBs) policy introduced by the Abiola Ajimobi-led government has not only brought relief, but has positively enhanced their status as principals.
They said the policy had afforded them the freedom to exercise authority, access opportunities to exhibit sense of creativity and assisted in translating the vision to reality.
This was revealed by the ANCOPS’s secretary, Pastor Babajide Olujide, while speaking at the presentation ceremony of the distribution of School Governing Boards (SGBs) compendium to stakeholders in education, which took place at the conference room, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Agodi Secretariat, Ibadan.
The ANCOPS’s scribe said the policy had set an unbeatable records, which could not be denied in the field of education in the state had maintained a rhythmic progress noting that “the ideal of the SGBs that came up as a policy for us to be implemented in Oyo State brought a lot of relief and a new era into the administration of secondary schools’ administration.”
According to Olujide, “What we are talking about is not political, but reality. There is no sentiment about it. We knew where we were before, we knew what is happening now, the difference is so clear because education has taken a new shape; new things are springing up. They are so visible for everyone to see.”
“In fact, I was so touched by the impacts of these SGBs. It has now become a gospel that we have been spreading from one state to the other. ANCOPS as a confederation operate at different levels and all along we have been sharing our experiences in Oyo state with other colleagues in various states,” he maintained.
Earlier in his remarks, the state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Professor Adeniyi Olowofela noted that the SGBs had contributed immensely to the development of education in the state, adding that the boards had frontally addressed the infrastructural challenges confronting the schools.
Olowofela said: “I am proud to say today that many of the Governing Boards had meticulously provided our schools with basic infrastructural and academic needs. Some had renovated abandoned and dilapidated classrooms; new classrooms were constructed in some schools, e-library projects were provided in some schools, while many schools have their ICT centre totally overhauled.”
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He explained that the compendium had a documentation of projects, programmes and achievements of the School Governing Boards, (SGBs) in all the public secondary schools in the state since their inauguration.
The Commissioner further noted that the compendium would go a long way in ensuring the sustainability of the schools, convinced members of the public and stakeholders in education that the current administration was determined to reposition education, not ready to keep people in the dark in the implementation of this new education policy, adding “it’s also a strategic way of engendering a healthy rivalry among school managers.”
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