ONDO STATE ATTAINS 90 PERCENT LITERACY RATES

Education is the key to everything that is good in our world today. Advances in computers, information technology, math, medicine, psychology, engineering and every other discipline would be impossible if education did not let us build on the advances of the great minds that came before us.

The formal education system in Nigeria is the 9-3- 4 system. Nigeria’s literacy rate is estimated at 61%. Nigeria has a large number of out-of-school children and young adults with limited literacy and numeracy skills who have little hope of ever joining the formal workforce.

Forty-two percent of 6- to 16year-olds in the Southwest are Muslims, and the majority of these children (60 percent) attend only Qur’anic school, where they are not taught the formal curriculum. Unlike in the Northern part of Nigeria, almost two-thirds of students are functionally illiterate.

Meanwhile The Southwest region has fairly high pre-primary, primary, junior secondary school (JSS) and senior secondary school (SSS) net attendance rates at around 80 percent, though it still has not achieved universal basic education. Literacy rates, at 75 percent, are also much higher than the national average of 40–46 percent.

By age 11, most children in Southwest Nigeria have entered school. A large proportion of 12- to 14-year-olds are still in primary school, partly a result of students starting primary school late or repeating some classes. Children aged 6–11 in the poorest households are slightly less likely to attend primary school (89 percent), and interventions should be targeted to this group.

Secondary School-Age Children School attendance for children age 12–16, the official secondary school ages, is high (90 percent), but many young teenagers are over-age primary school students—a problem for households of all income levels. By age 16, more students have left school. Although the attendance rates for secondary are low for this age group, they grow steadily to 85 percent by age 15.

In Ondo state the education system is fast and Literacy rates is at 90 % which is higher than the 40 – 46 percent which is the universal basic education.

While in August 2018, some students from St. peter’s secondary school, Dominion science Owo, and Greater tomorrow primary school, Ikare Akoko. Ojo Victor and Adejumo Daniel, Kayode Daniel, and Fayehun Olalekan represented Ondo state at the science teachers’ association of Nigeria (STAN) Competition at Kastina in project, quiz for both primary and secondary students. These students came first position trophies and other gift items, overall best physical science and written quiz and overall best basic science.

In October 2018 Ondo state was represented by two students from St. peter’s unity secondary school Akure Aro Elizabeth and Ojo Victor respectively at the national science and technology fair held at Umuahia Abia state. Where they perform excellently well. Elizabeth and Ojo came first position to represent Nigeria at the International Science fair OK-SEF in Turkey between 10th and 19th June, 2019.

In October 2018 students from St. peter’s unity secondary school Akure Aro Elizabeth and Ojo Victor respectively also represented Ondo state at the NTA/ETV National science and technology Expo where they came 2nd position Nationwide, and got Trophy, laptop and other gift items.