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Friday, July 02, 2004.
Alele-Williams,
others for Lagos education summit
By Fabian Ozor
Senior
Correspondent,
Lagos
A former Vice
Chancellor of the University of Benin, Professor Grace Alele-Williams, will
next week lead other stakeholders to the Lagos State summit on education.
The Lagos State
Government has fixed Tuesday and Wednesday next week for the two-day summit
designed to fashion out the way forward for the educational development of the
state.
The Commissioner
For Education, Dr. Olakunle Lawal, who disclosed this in Lagos said
Alele-Williams would be the chief speaker at the occasion.
Lawal disclosed
that the theme of the summit is “shaping a new vision and action for a
more functional education in Lagos State,” adding that the Managing
Director of Cadbury Nigeria Plc., Mr. Bunmi Oni, would be one of the
discussants.
The venue of the
summit according to Lawal is the banquet hall of the Excellence Hotel, Ogba,
saying Professor Peter Omoluabi of the department of Psychology, University of
Lagos would deliver a paper on “eradication of cult activities, drug
abuse, examination malpractice and indiscipline in schools; the way
forward.”
According to him,
all the stakeholders in education, especially, members of the Nigerian Union of
Teachers (NUT), All Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS),
academic and non-academic staff in tertiary institutions, non-governmental
organisation, organised private sector, students and parents have been invited
to participate at the summit.
The commissioner
denied allegation that the summit was an avenue for government to shift the
burden of financing education to parents, saying the state government would
continue to bear the burden of financing education.
“Lagos State
government will not transfer the burden of education to the masses. We will see
if we can involve the people. We are saying that government will pay for the
education but the manner of generating the fund can be discussed,” he
said.
