The Oando Basis has introduced its aim of making certain a million youngsters purchase fundamental digital literacy expertise by 2027. To attain this, it has earmarked over N1 billion to execute its 2025 Foundational Studying Enchancment Programme (LEARNOVATE-FLIP) in colleges throughout the nation.
The muse’s LEARNOVATE technique is a five-year initiative to boost foundational studying, digital literacy, and environmental training in public major colleges.
Head of Oando Basis, Tonia Uduimoh, who disclosed this to reporters in Lagos, emphasised the pressing want to handle Nigeria’s studying disaster with scalable, evidence-based options.
Uduimoh defined the inspiration’s strategic shift in direction of prioritising foundational literacy and numeracy, Science, Know-how, Engineering, Arts and Arithmetic (STEAM) training, inexperienced expertise growth, and training advocacy, geared toward bridging studying gaps and enhancing studying outcomes, particularly within the wake of COVID-19 studying losses and the alarming statistics on studying poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa.
She stated: “Training is the bedrock of nationwide growth, but, hundreds of thousands of Nigerian youngsters stay on the margins, denied entry to high quality studying. We’re at a crucial juncture, now greater than ever, we should rethink how we ship training.” Uduimoh identified that LEARNOVATE is designed to supply structured and impactful options to those challenges.
“By 2027, we intention to empower a million learners with the foundational expertise they should thrive. This isn’t nearly an intervention; it’s about transformation, making certain each youngster, no matter background, has the chance to succeed.”
For 2025, Uduimoh confused the precedence of scaling influence by means of focused interventions that tackle Nigeria’s most urgent training challenges.In keeping with her, the LEARNOVATE framework is structured round three core pillars, designed to handle crucial studying gaps and create a sustainable training system.
The core pillars are studying, selling inexperienced ability growth for teenagers, and main sector thought management to affect insurance policies and promote systemic change within the nation’s training system.
Uduimoh famous that the technique additionally prioritises capability constructing for academics and training stakeholders to enhance educating high quality and create a holistic strategy to studying, incorporating revolutionary pedagogical strategies to boost classroom experiences and ship long-term influence.
