The Scholarly Programme

Our Story

Since 2011, failure rates of Nigerian students in the mandatory West African Examination Council (WAEC) exams have remained above acceptable levels. Last year, about 41% of students who sat for the exams did not obtain a minimum of credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.

This essentially means that Nigeria is facing a learning crisis! If Nigerian secondary school students cannot perform basic calculations and express themselves in the official Lingua Franca, how else can they compete in the global economy which is steadily moving towards the technology age? How will they be able to join skilled labor and improve their employment and earning potential? How will they be able to acquire new skills as the skill demand changes in the labor market?

While attention has been brought to the state of education in Nigeria, the 2018 education budget further declined to 7.04% of the national budget, a figure that is well below the UN recommendation of 26%. The World Bank reports that the average socioeconomic status of students is highly correlated with the availability of essential teaching resources, such as textbooks and learning materials. This same report states that “Schools serving poor, rural students often have fewer learning resources than those that serve more advantaged, urban students.”

This is why…

“We at ClassX believe that every child ought to have access to the necessary resources to position them competitively with their counterparts across the globe. With the relevant information at their disposal, the possibilities of the children’s accomplishments are limitless.”

Our mission is to optimize learning by providing ready access to necessary learning resources which are otherwise unavailable to secondary school students in the country and by sensitizing the general public on the challenges faced by these students.


Who will benefit from this?

We reached out to a number of public schools in Lagos and decided to start with our pilot project; "The Scholarly Programme", at Kuramo Secondary School. We will be providing resources for the class population of this school, 75% of which have no textbooks and essential learning materials. In the future, we plan to aggressively grow our impact to include more partner schools in our network.

What exactly do we intend to do?:  

The objective of this programme is to provide some basic but necessary learning resources to students who do not have them. These include but are not limited to:

-Text books (for core subjects: Math, English, Biology)
-Calculators
-Mathematical Sets

Target:

Our goal is reach out to at least 220 students through this programme;

60 in the Senior Secondary and 160 in the Junior Secondary School.

Estimates:

Text books- N490,000
Calculators (for the senior secondary students)-N150,000
Math sets (for both senior and junior secondary students)- N110,000

Total:N750,000

How can you help? 

In order to kick off our long-term commitment to improving the performance of students in our partner school, we request that you join our push to make a difference. At the moment, you may help by making a monetary contribution towards our fund-raising goal.

You may also give-in-kind. So, this means that anyone can directly donate the text books we are considering or pay the monetary equivalent as a means of their contribution. The textbooks are:

New General Mathematics, English Project and Essential Biology for Senior Secondary School Students

New General Mathematics and English Project for Junior Secondary School Students 

To make arrangements for donation of the textbooks, or for further equiries, please contact us at:

Phone: 07062853554, 09064646271 or 08098001533

Email: classx.edu@outlook.com

What will you benefit? 

By contributing towards this fundraising campaign, you will literally be a change catalyst in the life of a Nigeria student. You will not be an on-looker but an active participant in changing the status quo of the country. More so, you will give them a chance to change your life too! when they harness their full potential through innovation and increased productivity.

Imagine Akideno, a boy that could not compose a grammatically correct sentence at the beginning of the semester, learning how to write an essay using the English textbook provided for him. After three years of continuous practice, he wins a national essay competition that offers him a scholarship to the university. Later, in life, he becomes the next Pulitzer Price winner and records scattering book sales that earn him an income throughout his lifetime.

Or Imagine Rukayat, a girl who could not perform two-digit multiplication calculations in JSS 3. Due to the constant Math practice she is able to get as a result of increased access to a Math textbook, she becomes better at mental Math and quantitative logic. She wins Mathopedia competitions for her school and is selected for a scholarship to attend university. She learns how to code and later sets up a thriving solution-providing business in the Yabacon valley of Lagos.

Apart from the career pursuit, all things being equal, a well educated person should make better decisions for themselves and their country. A spill over effect of this is the demand and exercise of civic rights, the competence and efficiency of the country's labor force and the improved moral fiber of the society at large. All of which are ingredients for an advancing economy.