Expert charge FG on more collaboration with education Stakeholders

By Maryam Abeeb

The Convener of Annual School Needs Expo, ASNE, Emem Opashi has charged the Federal Government to collaborate more with relevant stakeholders in order to bring about unique innovations that will develop the Education sector.

The education expert made this call while briefing newsmen during the 2023 ASNE event sponsored by WOWbii interactive in Abuja.

Emem while speaking about the theme of the event which is “Towards Education Agility – The Beginning of Change is CONVERSATION” she explained that its goal to foster a culture of conversation in education to promote agility, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. She concluded on this note.

She explained that there is urgent need for Stakeholders in the Education sector to design policies and program that will bring about development in the sector.

“I am apparently the founder of the annual school needs expo. So at the moment, we’re having a discourse on education, leadership development. And our focus is to have these conversations with the different stakeholders in education.

“We have the top level school owners and we are coming here to also learn how we can collaborate even with the government, other businesses, and then amongst ourselves to make sure that we are able to actually see the results.

“So we wanted to have all this selected people to an extent in the room and we have a range from the highest range of private schools, to the grassroot schools all represented here. We have businesses that are just doing little things to the really big ones, and there’s so much to learn from there. At the end of this one to be able to have a communique that we can even present to even the incoming government, for example.

According to her, this is an opportunity for public and private schools to synergize, noting that it can also help school proprietors to upgrade their schools and make it a better one.”