Cooperate with enumerators, commissioner tells teachers

Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye

The Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, has urged school administrators to help the state government generate credible education data.

She stated this on Wednesday at the beginning of the 2014/2015 Annual School Census.

Noting that the census is imperative for multi-sectoral planning, Oladunjoye said the exercise would only succeed if stakeholders supported the initiative.

She urged the education managers to be available to attend to the enumerators and make all records available to them.

According to her, all schools need to provide correct information as well as statutory and administrative records to facilitate the free flow of the exercise.

The commissioner noted that as drivers of the ASC, they should cooperate with the officials to produce credible data that would serve the need of the sector.

“I therefore wish to urge all stakeholders, especially our principals and head teachers, who are the drivers of the initiative to produce credible and timely data for the education sector.

She added, “Hitherto, inconsistencies of data, care-free attitude to data collection and non-remittance of timely returns had characterised the attitudes of the stakeholders. I call on you all to turn a new leaf by embracing this efficient data generation exercise.