Systems approach needed to enhance learning in our schools – Experts

School owners and administrators have been tasked to invest in improving teaching and learning using systems approach to advance the overall development of their students. Experts stated this at the maiden edition of the Academic City, Ghana’s Educational Conference in Lagos as they discuss the importance of systems approach in teaching.

Fred Mcbogonluri, the President/provost Academic city Ghana while speaking at the event said the vision of the university is to offer quality tertiary education designed to nurture and develop the intellectual capital on the African continent, adding that curricula deployment as well as its design should be human centred.

“When deploying curricula, you need to understand that you’re teaching humans not donkeys. It is important to focus on not just the smart kids but the ones who are struggling too. What we at Atlantic City have been trying to do in the past few years is that we are trying to create an ecosystem where we are changing the narrative on how education is offered as a whole on our continent”, he said.

According to Mcbogonluri, “Teachers should be able to put themselves in their students’ shoes and ask if their teaching

methods would help these students understand better.there is a need to make learning realistic. Managing the classroom environment means making it realistic and being able to simplify things”.

He also said that schools should be able to incorporate system thinking into their curricula and contextualise learning for their kids. “Until the kids really understand what exactly it is that this mathematics we teach is solving, we are just creating robots. Even robots are beginning to think right now so we need to understand phenomenon.”

Pradeep Pahalwani, managing director, Securisk insurance brokers Limited opines that effective communication is important to keep businesses afloat. Speaking to school owners, Pahalwani said “Life is totally about communication. One reason why businesses fail is the inability to communicate properly. Businesses are supposed to be customer centric and improper communication can hinder that”.

There is a need to hire for attitude while training for skills when recruiting members of staff for schools and the human capital of the school could go a long way in determining the success or failure of the schools in the long run.

The management of University of Nigeria Nsukka says it will use N1.3 Billon University Tetfund money to complete ten projects before the end of June 2019. The outgoing vice chancellor of the institution Benjamin Ozumba promised to complete all the projects he started before his tenure empires.

Ozumba who was briefing the press on his stewardship as the 14th Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka said he would complete ten new projects he started in the campuses of the university before handling over to a new Vice Chancellor.

Some of the new projects include: Block of office at the university teaching hospital ItukuOzalla, Roads Science Pack, Central university laboratory, Diagnostic center in Nsukka and also Ziks Flats which he said would be done under PPP arrangement among others.

Ozumba who emphatically said he was not going to leave any project he started in his five years as the head of the first Nigerian university abandoned, pointed out he had equally initiated some projects that would generate revenue for the university.

Some of the revenue generating projects according to him are the University of Nigeria Business School, Agricultural package where