Lagos sets Sept 5 as resumption date for schools, Aug.12 to close mandatory registration for all private schools
Lagos Government has set Monday, September 5, as reopening date for first term academic activities of schools in the year 2022/2023 academic session.
In the approved harmonised school calendar for the year 2022/2023 academic year, the first term is expected to conclude on Friday, December 16, this year.
This is just as the government has commenced the mandatory registration process for all privately-owned nursery, primary and secondary schools operating in the state.
A statement to this effect signed by the Director-General, Office of the Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), of the Ministry of Education, Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, Friday, explained that the year 2022/2023 academic calendar encompasses flexibility in schools and prioritises harmonised instructional days of learning to ensure that students in the State spend productive learning hours in the classrooms.
Seriki-Ayeni further stressed the need for schools to maintain a minimum of 180 learning days.
She, therefore, enjoined all schools to adhere strictly to the academic calendar as approved for the delivery of quality and sustainable education in Lagos State in tandem with the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Education and Technology.
Meanwhile, the state government has directed all approved, registered and unregistered private nursery, primary and secondary schools to upload their information on its website as part of data gathering of schools operating in the state.
It said the registration is mandatory for all private nursery, primary and secondary schools.
A statement containing the directive issued by Director-General, OEQA, Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, Friday, noted that the registration exercise which commenced on Friday, July 15, 2022 will end on Friday August 12, 2022.
“Mandatory registration, data update and validation exercise for all approved, registered and unregistered nursery, primary, secondary and sixth form schools operating in Lagos State.
“The school registration and validation exercise is required to ascertain schools still in operation in the state.
“The Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA) is responsible for the standardisation, monitoring and regulation of all schools (private and public) below the tertiary level in Lagos State which includes the establishment and management of the database of all private schools in the state.”
The statement further directed that all the concerned schools are to use a Gmail account to complete the form, adding that all approved schools will be required to visit the OEQA for verification exercise at a date to be communicated.
“With the use of a Google mail account, proprietors and proprietresses of schools are required to complete the form, upload a copy of their national identity card, basic information of current school managers and administrators and other relevant documents requested. Schools with multi-campuses must register each individually.
“For registration, all schools below the tertiary level are required to visit the website of the Office of Education Quality of Assurance (www.oeqalagos.com) to access the data update form and download guidelines to complete the form. The form can also be accessed by typing the applicable link below into a browser,” the statement read.
