Dr Leesi Gborogbosi, the Guber Candidate on the platform of Action Peoples Party (APP) Rivers State, has provided the outline of his educational policy.

He stated that the future will be driven by creativity, imagination, learning, independent thinking, experience, and wisdom.

His educational policy is to prepare our children for the future of global competition and value creation.

He is heavily concerned that our educational policies are not in his opinion geared towards preparing our graduates for the real world where paid jobs are scarce.

Se all the "The Untapped Business in Nigeria"

Dr Leesi Gborogbosi reflected that being a product of good education, achieving successes in the educational sector will give him great happiness.

His model of SOLID EDUCATION is aimed at reforming the educational system from the "education of knowing" to the "education of solving problems".

This Solid Education model will:

1. Address key infrastructural challenges in the educational sector especially by increasing the stocks of our educational infrastructure.

2. Formulate new modes of learning that will make Rivers State globally relevant and competitive.

3. Promote solid education that enables our children to develop an inquisitive and innovative mindset that drives the desire of the children to truly know themselves and solve societal problems while achieving their personal dreams.

4. Stimulate and challenge graduates to create jobs, and help in the growth and development of the rural communities.

TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

5. Our higher institutions of learning will be centres of boundless Imagination, that encourage our children to challenge existing thoughts. 

6. We will move away from the education of knowing to the education of creative minds that solve everyday problems.

7. The 3rd year undergraduate students will be supported with real life training to prepare them for the real world of competition, no jobs, and underdevelopment. 

7.1 They will attend entrepreneurship training by consultants to enable them to register their potential businesses even before they graduate. 

7.2 During their National Youth Service, they will be encouraged to kick-start their businesses to create jobs.

8. The environments at campuses will drastically change with basic infrastructure being put in place that will allow our children to enjoy a minimum level of human decency such as:
8.1 Uncrowded lecture halls and lecturers’ office, 
8.2 Availability of toilet facilities, computers, digital teaching aids, 
8.3 And prevention of operations of non-state actors.

9. The campuses will be re-beautified as a world-class environment for thinking with provisions for resting and discussions areas throughout the campuses. 

9.1 A stimulating and motivating environment. Such that when the students are in school, the environment should make them feel like not going home. And when they are at home, you should feel like going back to school.

10. Our Universities and Polytechnics should be centres of solutions, research, and world-class publications. 

10.1 Student theses that are relevant to the business world and the society will be published for business leaders and investors to go into venture relationship with the students that conducted the research and in partnership with the university.

11. The tertiary institutions to have start-up and innovation clubs where ideas are promoted and made more visible to business leaders and venture capitalists. 

11.1 Every year, business and innovation workshops will be organised to attract business leaders and investors to come to campuses to see new innovations by students.

12. We will relook students’ education financing strategy to ensure every child can complete the university education no matter the economic background the student may come from.

12.1 Students will be taught skills that will enable them to work while studying, and earn income to support the financing of their education.

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS

13. Primary education will be qualitative, compulsory and free.

14. Teaching of local languages, and positive cultural values will be encouraged.

15. Regular inspection of schools to ensure uncrowded classrooms, school buildings are fit-for-learning, and libraries (well-stocked with reading materials) are powered by solar energy.

16. All secondary schools must have computer rooms with a minimum number of computers equal to the number of students in the final year.

17. The push is to have a child who is totally developed and can see the world.

OTHERS FOCUS AREAS

18. Government will collaborate with private sector and social sector to create opportunities for vacations jobs to enable students to acquire work experience, and right workplace behavioural imperatives. 

19. To establish a Cyber / Innovation Hub (free internet) centres in every LGA to promote research, creativity, and innovation.

God bless Rivers State.

Dr Leesi Gabriel Gborogbosi 

Guber Candidate
Action Peoples Party (APP)
Rivers State | Nigeria
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