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born 1958 Nigeria
Oluyemisi Oluremi Obilade (born 14 November 1958) is a Nigerian academic, she is a former Vice chancellor of Tai Solarin University of Education. She succeeded Professor Segun Awonusi.
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We are going to take punitive measures against these teachers and give a voice to students.
When people know that you're living to please God, they will respect your stand. There are certain things your boss won't ask you to do because He knows who you are.
When the world of people know what you stand for, your life becomes easier. When you stand for God there is a price to pay. You can work among corrupt people and not be corrupted.
There can’t be remarkable improvement in change in attitudinal behaviour of the people without education. Education is an effective instrument for positive change.
We must also address equity more than equality. This will provide a ladder for women to succeed.
If you don’t train and retrain teachers, education will continue to be comatose; students will continue to fail woefully and development may not be possible.
In some rural areas, parents withdraw girls from schools when they reach a certain age because they are afraid they will have to have relations with teachers.
Women in leadership need to be prepared for challenges. Also, other women in leadership need to mentor younger women so as to prepare them for leadership. Leadership is not easy for a woman.
A nation with a large number of uneducated citizens cannot develop. Education is the foundation for development.
We can make Education more attractive through our application of technology and Information Communication Technology in the learning curricula.
I don’t shy away from responsibilities but for me, it is important to be clear on the sort of responsibility.
Teachers should be trained and retrained. This should be done regularly. If teachers who are key factors in schools are left out, then we should not expect that pupils would perform very well.
We must address the socialisation process that gives less worth to the girl child. Our society from birth has conferred a subordinate role on the girl child.
I live by certain guiding principles, the things I cannot do openly, I will not do in private. I live by the principle of selfless leadership, service and integrity.
I also believe that we must walk the talk. If you talk of honesty, integrity, people must see it in you
You know when the hand shake is going beyond the elbow between a person in position of authority and a person at a lower position and it has sexual motive, that is sexual harassment.
The world is a global village, the methodology of teaching and learning has become so diverse that we must also look deeply at the diversification of the teaching and learning model in and around the world.
I happened to come from grandmothers and a mother who were not apologetic about being women.
He encouraged me to fly, to spread my wings. I was determined to fly, I was not going to allow anything to kill my dreams and fortunately, he shared that.
I was the first born of the family and was dearly loved by my grandparents and my mum. It was like a punishment but I knew that was the way out for me.
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