In another effort aimed at boosting quality extracurricular activities among public school students, the Osun State government has inaugurated what it calls “After School Arts Clubs” across public schools in the State.
The idea, which is an initiative of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Hon. Teniola Lanlehin is aimed at helping to identify who could be entrepreneurs apart from their academic pursuit.
Speaking with newsmen in Osogbo, Hon. Teniola stressed that the students now have the opportunity to contribute into the growth of the economy of the country as they will not only be self-employed but also be employers of labour.
She said the club will start with a fifteen- week entrepreneurship course, and by the end of the course, the State would have succeeded in producing not just learners but entrepreneurs.
While appreciating sponsors of the course, she said children should be exposed to entrepreneurship courses at a young age, stating that white-collar jobs are no longer available.
The launching of the club, which was first done at St. James Grammar School Osogbo witnessed varities of entrepreneurship courses like knitting and crocheting, ceramics, batik, paintings , and others, which are intended to be replicated in other schools.
