Funmi Ogundare
The Group Managing Director (GMD) New Globe Nigeria, a technology-driven educational service provider, Mrs. Omowale David-Ashiru, has called on the federal government to ensure the incorporation of innovative education solutions into the system to tackle the learning challenges among school children in the country.
David-Ashiru said this recently while briefing journalists in Lagos on how a Nobel Prize-winning professor’s report on an education methodology already being used in states like Edo, Lagos and Kwara, as well as some parts of Africa, is delivering value.
She said the study led by the 2019 Nobel prize-winning Economists, Prof. Michael Kremer suggests that children living in underserved African communities could receive 53 per cent more learning in schools supported by Nigerian government partner NewGlobe throughout their early childhood and primary schooling through grade 8.
According to her, the holistic methodology studied by Michael Kremer and his co-authors was exported from Kenya. It largely underpinned Nigeria’s state-wide Lagos (EkoExcel), Edo (EdoBest) and Kwara (KwaraLearn) public transformation programmes.
She added that the integrated methodology used within the NewGlobe programme produces better academic performance and fairer educational outcomes, adding, “the methodology focuses on standardisation and holistic approach which ensures continuous teacher development and support, deployment of the teacher guide and instructional design based on scientific pedagogy.”
The GMD expressed concern that as Nigeria approaches its election season, tackling learning poverty is a big challenge, adding that those who are aspiring for leadership positions should know that innovative education solutions that are proven to be effective at scale will define the prosperity, growth and security of our global future.
