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Securing and Investing in the Next generation.

The Kwara Education Futures Summit, themed: “Securing and Investing in the Next Generation”, is an event to engage public and private sector education leaders, thinkers and relevant stakeholders in Ilorin (the state capital), on the 5th of August, 2021. The summit seeks to explore thorough interactive sessions, workshops, talks and exhibitions, the future of education as central to the Kwara State government’s agenda for growth and development.

Education in Kwara State faces numerous challenges specifically: insufficient funding, irregular promotion of teachers, inadequate infrastructure, not enough teaching aids, absence of operational vehicles, unequal distribution of teaching staff and unfavourable learning conditions. To address these issues, Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has declared a state of emergency in the education sector – calling on relevant stakeholders to define an agenda and program of interventions to make high quality education available and accessible for all.

In a series of live and digital interactive sessions, the Education Futures Summit will assess state-wide education infrastructure and service delivery challenges; and then map out relevant entry points – from policy areas to community contexts – where the government can direct key actors in public and private sectors to transform the future of education in Kwara State.

Objectives

Understand the current state of emergency and navigate the education gap in Kwara state: a 360 look at current Infrastructure And Resources.
Bring together stakeholders to reimagine education in Kwara state & Nigeria to promote a culture of sharing evidence and open discussion.
Leverage Innovation and new technologies to improve and transform education systems and learning in Kwara state.
The role of policy at both the state and local level; and in particular, the importance of evidence-based policymaking.
Adopting an innovation-mind-set/mainstream innovative thinking.

KWARA EDUCATION FUTURES: SECURING AND INVESTING IN THE NEXT GENERATION.

The event is an “Education Futures Summit” because its primary focus is to map paths towards making high quality education available and accessible for everyone in Kwara State. Additionally, education is an investment in the future of any society — children to adulthood. The summit name therefore communicates the idea of education as a major key to building the future of Kwara State.

The theme: “Securing and Investing in the Next Generation” frames the summit’s objectives. The outcome of the 1-day program of events will be actionable interventions to secure continuous growth in education and by extension growth in children and adulthood, who are Kwara’s future.

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Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development.

Ministry of Tertiary Education Science and Technology.

Ministry of Special Duties.

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The Education Futures Summit aims to assess state-wide education infrastructure and service delivery challenges; and then map out relevant entry points – from policy areas to community contexts – where government can direct key actors in public and private sectors to transform the future of education in Kwara State.