Regional director of Communications, NewGlobe, Lanre Dairo has reiterated the importance of quality education and how it can help solve society’s problems, saying the e-learning solution provider works with 1011 Lagos schools, 400,000 pupils to transform the education sector in the state.
He said NewGlobe recently showcased its mission and impacts in Nigeria at the 14th Total School Support Seminar/Exhibition (TOSSE) with the theme,’ Building a sustainable education ecosystem in Africa’ held in Lagos.
Speaking at the event, organised by Edumark Consulting, seeks to transform Nigeria’s education sector through seminars, mentorship and showcasing edu-innovations Dairo, reiterated the importance of quality education and how it can help solve society’s problems.
Dairo, whose organisation is the technical partner to strategic transformational interventions, including EKOEXCEL in Lagos, EdoBEST (Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation) in Edo State and KwaraLEARN in Kwara State, also stressed the importance of collaboration among players in the education sector.
He noted that “players in the education sector should collaborate more. Collaboration is vital. We should not see ourselves as competitors but as one unit driving the growth of our sector and country.”
Highlighting the edutech platform’s methodology, Dairo disclosed that the company invests significantly in classroom management to improve learning outcomes.
He said, “New Globe continuously studies the science of learning, pedagogy. It’s a continuous process for us. We have special schools where we observe how learning is going on. And we ask ourselves two questions, how can we improve learning outcomes and make it more cost-effective for the users without diluting the impact? Even in private schools, we should have a continuous iterative development goal in our classroom. We should continuously observe what works.”
