{"id":69226,"date":"2025-06-27T20:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69226"},"modified":"2025-06-27T20:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:23:13","slug":"lagos-moves-to-standardize-private-mission-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/27\/lagos-moves-to-standardize-private-mission-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Moves to Standardize Private, Mission Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Government has inaugurated a 17-member committee to develop a comprehensive policy for standardizing the operations of private and mission-owned schools across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Unveiled at the Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), headquarters in Alausa, Ikeja, the committee is expected to deliver the policy within two months.<\/p>\n<p>It will align with the newly approved National Policy for Non-State Schools while addressing Lagos\u2019 specific educational needs.<\/p>\n<p>Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Mrs. Abisola Dokunmu-Adegbite, said the move reflects Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu\u2019s commitment to inclusive and quality education.<\/p>\n<p>She expressed hope for a world-class policy document and pledged institutional support and oversight.<\/p>\n<p>OEQA Coordinating Director, Mr. Remi Abdul, described the initiative as a milestone in reforming education governance in the private sector. He said it could serve as a model for other states.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul also acknowledged the technical support of the DAWN Commission and the PLANE programme.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is chaired by Dr. Sulaimon Ogunmuyiwa, Director of Private Education and Special Programmes at OEQA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; The Lagos State Government has inaugurated a 17-member committee to develop a comprehensive policy for standardizing the operations of private and mission-owned schools across the state. Unveiled at the Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), headquarters in Alausa, Ikeja, the committee is expected to deliver the policy within two months. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69228,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69226\/revisions\/69228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}