Permanent Secretary praises Lagos SSCE result

Permanent Secretary praises Lagos SSCE result

The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Mr Adesina Odeyemi, has praised the improved performance of public school pupils in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) since 2014.

He said public schools have moved from a poor performance of 21.22 per cent in 2014 to achieving 66 per cent credit and above in at least five subjects, including English and Mathematics in this year’s examination, a performance better than the national average of 59.22 per cent.

In 2015, the state achieved 37.27 per cent; and 50.41 per cent in 2016.

He gave the statistics while addressing school counselors during a training on subject selection held last Thursday at the SUBEB Hall, Maryland.

Lagos has made tremendous progress in external examinations since 2015. The Permanent Secretary, who made this known, revealed that the state’s performance at this year’s WASSCE was 66 per cent pass in at least five subjects including English and Mathematics adding that compared to the 50.41 per cent in 2016, 37.27 per cent in 2015 and 21.22 per cent in 2014, it was evident that the education sector has been making geometric progress.

Speaking at a workshop with the theme “Relevance of Subject Selection in Secondary Schools”, Odeyemi opined that it was designed to deepen knowledge and widen the horizon of Counsellors in the state to help them assist  Senior Secondary School pupils in the choice of subjects vis a vis their future ambitions.

According to him, “the theme is apt because this is the time to interface with students of SS.1 in order to know their future ambition, and appropriately advise them. A look at their performances in their Basic Education Certificate Examination will indicate their subjects of strength and their area of weakness”.

He admonished the counselors to bring their knowledge of the requirements of the examination bodies such as WAEC, NECO, GCE and JAMB in relation to the admission criteria of tertiary institutions at home and abroad to bear in advising the students in the selection and proper combination of subjects for Ordinary Level Certificate Examination which is a very important pre-requisite for admission into tertiary institutions.

Odeyemi further said the steady improvement in the education sector of the state could only be beneficial to the students and the state when it translates to future success of the students concerned. Students offering Science, Humanities or Business subjects must be seen to belong to their relevant classes except in subjects that are compulsory for all students.

He advised that, a situation where a student will mix subjects in Humanities and Business together and the passes recorded are useless in pursuance of future education should be avoided.

Earlier in her welcome address, Director, Child Guidance, School Counselling and Special Education, Mrs. Ketimu Musa, said the Ministry assembled seasoned counsellors to take participants in topics like structure and subjects of the new curriculum, subject selection for the four fields of study; administration and streaming using the aptitude test and strategies to curb the conflict between skills acquisition and formal education in our secondary schools.

 

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