Osinbajo advocates support for education revolution to combat poverty

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called for universal support for education as a foundation to lift countries out of poverty.

Osinbajo stated this at the launch of the ambitious World Education Week – a six-day online global education showcase with over 85,000 registered online attendees in 146 countries.

Osinbajo stated that we cannot talk about delivering quality education in today’ s world without rethinking our models and leveraging technology; andre thinking our education curricula to give students the relevant knowledge and skills to make them active contributors in today’s economy.

According to him, “Quality of education is key since it is a predictor of a nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) - arguing that poor education policies and practices lose economic output, threatening to create a permanent state of economic backwardness. Increasing education and skills can boost a lower-income country’s GDP by 28 percent over the next 80 years”.

In supporting the Federal Government to achieve its goals, Teach for Nigeria announced the launch of its ambitious “10 by 10 SDG 4 Pledge” as an expression of its intention to scale its work to ensure that it delivers on its vision to achieve education equity. This pledge means that over the next ten years teach for Nigeria will work with select stakeholders to improve the learning outcomes of 10,000,000 children in schools across Nigeria. At Teach for Nigeria this will be done by attracting high potential candidates to partake in training programmes and thereafter place them in schools as teachers and school leaders.