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ICT Enhances Education Service Delivery – Commissioner
The role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in education service delivery in Nigeria has been described as pivotal since it controls today’s global environment.
Permanent Secretary, Abia State Ministry of Education, Mrs Victoria O. Chigbu, who represented the state’s Commissioner for Education stated this in an address at the commissioning and hand-over ceremony of Abia Grammar School E-learning Centre for the deployment of SPDC / INTEL / ETF sponsored SkoolNigeria Programme at Owaza, Abia State, recently.
“Suffice it to say that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) controls the global environment today, ICT has become the pivot on which all aspects of human endeavour rotate and over 80 per cent of worthwhile activities and programmes in almost all disciplines is anchored on hardware and software applications. Therefore, the importance of ICT in education service delivery cannot be overemphasized,” Chigbu stated.
Describing the project as laudable and a legacy in Owaza Grammar School, she thanked the management of SPDC and Intel, calling on non governmental organisations and philanthropists in the country to support government in the provision and development of educational facilities.
She noted that the place of private sector participation in education has become imperative in order to ameliorate the concomitant effect of carrying capacity in the school system and increase access to qualitative education to the citizenry, irrespective of socio-economic background of the individuals.
Also speaking, the SPDC’s general manager, Sustainable Development and Community Relations, Mr Nedo Osanyede, who was represented by Dr Chibuzor Ayim, said the centre, which is an SPDC Joint Venture’s commitment to enhance education in the Niger Delta would not only handle academic issues that could be handled through internet including parents’ checking of results of their wards online doing and submitting assignments online by students but with separate business centre that is for the sustenance of the school.
Osanyede, stressed that the e-Learning centre underscores the joint venture’s vision to promote mathematics and science education, the two subject areas that have regrettably received less attention in Nigeria but which nonetheless must be embraced if the country must remain relevant in today’s technology driven world.
SPDC in 2006, entered into partnership with Intel Corporation and Education Trust Fund (ETF) to develop, localize and deploy a web-based interactive education portal covering the national curricula for teachings learning of English, Mathematics, and Science subjects (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) and Integrated Science for both junior and senior secondary schools in the country. The site of the project was officially launched in.
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