Sterling Bank unveils new strategy to lift capacity building unveils new strategy to lift capacity building

Sterling Bank Plc has unveiled a new strategy to lift education sector in Nigeria. According to the bank, education is regarded as a legacy that a country must give to her citizens and the bank has such set up education desk to look at the total value chain of sector from suppliers of inputs to the end users.

The Executive Director, Sterling Bank, Abubakar Suleiman, said that the objectives are to transform the sector with the state-of- the-art technologies and technical equipment that will promote the delivery of qualitative capacity building to impact on the development and growth of education in the country.

“Our job is to recognise that we are not competing, we are going with the same destination so that whatever we do we must put something on the table so that 5 years from now, 10 years from now is still something that will be going concerns and not a project that will work for a year and disappear and re-appeared”, he stated.

To achieve this, the bank has entered into partnership with service providers in the system, especially those involved in e-learning through various applications to ensure that students get quality education and catch up with what obtains worldwide.

The Executive Director, Netlibrary Nigeria ltd, Mrs Oyeyinka Ayo-yusuf, said the partnership with the Bank who provide reliable solutions to the current situations.

According to her, the problem with most of these institutions in the country is the quality of the library, where they have old books.

“We are working with Sterling Bank to provide this solution to activate current information across the board and also expose students to the use of information technology”.

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Qc-Investment Limited, Aikhaituamen Fred, said their objective in the partnership is to provide technical equipment to school; provide access to education contents; to secure VPNs connectivity across the world and educational technology. These platforms, he said, will enhance the teaching and learning culture of both teachers and students respectively, and consequently bride the incongruous gap between educational outputs and the labour market.

Additionally, the classrooms will have each system for the students and will be upgraded to become multimedia classrooms with audio feeds, interactive board, internet port/network access and 3-D technical that we allow all science subjects “theory and practical” be taught at the same time.

Intervention leader-Finance (DFID), Busuyi Okeowo, in partnership with Sterling Bank is to work on the improvement of low cost and medium cost private school.

Also, is to provide support to students to get to the level where the government want them to, and also provide access to finance and to improved quality capacity of teachers for quality learning outcome of kids in private schools.

This platform provided will enhance the teaching and learning culture of both teachers and students respectively. It will also ensure that the quality of students produced by schools at the end of the day will be relevant to the society economically.