Hello once again, this is my final piece on the Education Technology (EdTech) Gap within the Nigerian Education System (primary and secondary). You may recall that in Part 1 and 2 of sharing my opinion on Bridging the Technology Gap in the Nigerian Educational System, I shared my thoughts on the Nigerian EdTech gap and proposed a school grading system.
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Building from what I shared the last time, one of our biggest challenges as a nation is the registration of schools across the country. For instance, Lagos, Kaduna, Kogi, Edo and several other states within the country struggle with school registration. However, one of the main benefits of the state-based school grading system is to help bring a lot of schools out of the shadows. Once these schools are graded they will be registered which will open a pathway to developmental support, bank loans and private sector investments, all of which are critical for their upscaling. This process would result in a concerted effort to upgrade these schools from where they are to where they need to be.