Lagos promises to handle overpopulation in government public schools

 The Lagos State Government has said handling overpopulation in state funded schools across the state is working.

The Chief General, Office of Training Quality Affirmation, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, in a select visit with The Report, said the state government had quality schooling for students in schools in the state as its highest need.

Talking on the educator understudy proportion by the Public Instruction Strategy which suggests 1:40 for auxiliary schools, 1:35 for grade schools, and 1:25 for preschoolers, the OEQA DG said the public authority was fabricating more schools where existing schools are overpopulated and utilizing more qualified educators while preparing existing ones in successful class the board.

The state has a very high demand for government school enrollment. The public authority recognizes the difficulties that accompany such interest.

“Lagos State is the most crowded state in Nigeria; as a matter of fact, Lagos makes Nigeria the most crowded dark country… However that doesn’t imply that we don’t have guidelines with regards to the arrangement of schooling administration conveyance.

“There is a consistent contention on which is to started things out; is it the entrance or is it the quality? Furthermore, Lagos State is doing both. We are not closing our doors to students, but we are aware that all students will receive an education if we create an ecosystem of more standardized, more regulated private schools.

“As an administration, we won’t forfeit quality for anything. In order to depopulate the existing schools, which hasn’t been done in a long time, and rehabilitate the existing schools so that students can learn more comfortably, our governor has placed a high priority on building more schools in areas where the existing schools are overcrowded only during this administration.