The Principal, Crown International Secondary School, Odo, Ado Ekiti, Sunday Ojo, has said the school will fill the missing link in provision of international standard education in Ekiti state.

Ojo said the school would also provide second to none vocational training for its pupils in partnership with  Crown Polytechnic, saying it would provide the leverage for the smooth running of vocational courses just as engineers and instructors from the polytechnic will provide training and support at all times”.

The principal, who spoke at a press conference to intimate parents and guardians on what he described as “innovative and functional education emerging in Ekiti State,” said the new school was out to facilitate students’ thinking process and develop their potentials and personal value.

He said, “Vocation training forms an essential part of the school curriculum. Students will be trained to acquire entrepreneurial and skills based on their chosen trades. The workshops are equipped with the necessary training facilities.

“The school is aimed at providing classroom instructions blended with practical trainings to enable students develop the mindset of self-independence.

He said that the school based on boarding system with opportunity for day students, which was the first of its kind in Ekiti State would run both Nigeria and British curricula, adding that they were the main feature of international education.

“The school will deliver the syllabus of West African Secondary School Certificate Examination and International General Certificate of Secondary Education,” he said.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth has honoured Fareedah Oyolola, a secondary school student at Greensprings School, Lagos, as one of the brightest students in the world.

This recognition is a result of her exceptional performance in the advanced School and College Ability Test (SCAT), which every student must undergo in order for the institution to determine their current academic abilities before admitting them into its talent search programme.

Sharing her experience about the test, Fareedah said: “The test was a multiple-choice aptitude test in verbal and quantitative reasoning, and I had to answer 100 questions within 44 minutes! At the end of the test, my score was in the 92nd percentile for verbal reasoning and 87th percentile for quantitative reasoning.

There’s no way I would have gotten these high scores with such a limited time window if not for the great work put in by my teachers, towards developing my comprehension abilities and mathematical reasoning skills. I am very grateful to them.”

In a statement issued by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Virginia Roach, the Executive Director;  congratulated Fareedah and other outstanding students across the world. She said, “We are thrilled to celebrate these students. In a year that was anything but ordinary, their love of learning shined through, and we are excited to help cultivate their growth as scholars and citizens throughout high school, college, and beyond.”

The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth is an initiative of Johns Hopkins University committed to nurturing extraordinary young minds. Its 2020 – 2021 programme draws nearly 19,000 students from 84 countries. Fareedah and other honourees from other countries are expected to attend a summer programme in the United States or Hong Kong