BRIEF PROFILE OF ADEBARE EGUNJOBI, PhD, FPSA
Dr Adebare Egunjobi is one of the most sought after educational conference speakers in Africa.
He is a foremost educational trainer, topmost educational thinker and highly resourceful educational consultant in Africa today.
He is the founder and CEO of EIN Educational Services, the organisation he has led to train over 20,000 classroom teachers and 10,000 school administrators in Africa, and still counting.
One of the most passionate and highly motivated educational solution providers to hail from the continent of Africa, he has identified many problems in the African education space and has proffered practical solutions to many of them:
When he realized the huge gap which exists between the African educational system and other developed continents of the world, he launched a comparative education initiative which was aimed at understudying the educational systems of other advanced countries of the world with the view of adopting and adapting relevant and workable practices in African schools.
Every year, he takes African school owners and administrators to Dubai, UAE with the aim of understudying American, British, Australian, Arab and Indian systems of Education. Over 100 school administrators have been taken for this laudable comparative education campaign within the last couple of years.
Having discovered that Finland has the best educational system in the world, he has taken over 100 school administrators from Africa in three consecutive trips to understudy the Finnish educational system with the view of benchmarking global best practices in school administration and management in African schools. This he does on yearly basis.
Through this initiative, many school owners and administrators have had the opportunities of benchmarking the global best practices acquired from different countries of the world in their respective schools.
Having discovered the lacuna which exists in the training regime of school administrators in many African countries, Dr Adebare Egunjobi founded
International College of School Administration (ICSA) to bridge that unwholesome gap. ICSA is today, the largest on-the-job professional training institution for practising school administrators in Africa. The school offers varying levels of certificates in School Business and Administration. The school also confers Membership and Fellowship of Professional School Administrator on her alumni (MPSA/FPSA) on yearly basis.
Upon realization of the deficiency of African students in 21st Century trends and demands, he founded Robotics Instructors Training School (RITS), one of the few indigenous institutions pioneering the integration of Robotics Education into African schools. Over 100 schools have been onboarded for the Robotics Education Programme of the school in the last couple of years.
In furtherance of his vision of equipping African teachers for global competitiveness, Dr Adebare Egunjobi pioneered Complete Teacher Training and Certification CTTC Programme – one of the largest indigenous online training platforms for teachers in Africa. More than 2,500 teachers in West African countries have been certified in contemporary teacher education through this platform.
Appalled by the number of jobless graduates who are roaming the streets of African towns and cities on yearly basis, Dr Adebare Egunjobi launched Relevant and Functional Education Campaign – an intervention that is designed to curb the menace of Unemployment anf Unemployability in Africa. The vision behind RAFEC Africa is geared towards educating, exposing, enlightening and equipping African students and graduates with requisite skills, certifications and competencies that are necessary to survive the 21st Century labour market demands. The campaign has been launched in many states in Nigeria and beyond.
As a follow up to this intervention, Dr Adebare Egunjobi launched EPSA Programme (Exposure Programme for Students in Africa) where he seeks to open the eyes of African students and undergraduates to what the global employers are looking for in potential employees in the 21st Century.
Worried by the way and manner African teachers are being relegated in the society, Dr Adebare Egunjobi pioneered Teach and Win Nigeria – the largest teaching competition and reality show for teachers in Africa, which is designed to reward competence, passion and professionalism in the teaching profession.
An expert in Educational Leadership and Administration, and a School Business Coach per excellence, Dr Adebare Egunjobi is the Convener of Education Industry Leaders EIL Summit – a special conference for market leaders in the African education industry based on MARCS philosophy.
His latest project is Best Schools in Nigeria BESIN Awards, a 40-category award ceremony instituted to celebrate the best practices in Nigerian educational ecosystem and by far, the largest educational award ceremony in the Continent of Africa!
Dr Adebare Egunjobi is a member of Panel of Judges of Global Educational Awards – the highest educational award ceremony in the world which holds in Dubai, UAE every year. The award ceremony attracts participation from over 90 countries of the world every year!
He is the Project Director of the prestigious SGI (School Growth International) Conference – an international training and exposure conference for African school administrators which holds in Finland, Dubai, Nigeria and other countries of the world every year.
Adebare Egunjobi is the Chairman, Initiatives for Educational Development and Literacy IFEDAL – an NGO that is committed to uplifting the standard of education in Africa and returning the out-of-school children in Nigeria to the classrooms.
He is the founder of Education Experts (edperts) Forum – a platform for all professionals serving the education industry in Africa
He has served as Educational Consultant to many state governments, organisations, associations and educational institutions in Nigeria and beyond.
Some of the associations and organizations that Dr Adebare Egunjobi has consulted for or work in partnership with in the delivery of his educational services include:
Association of International School Educators of Nigeria
World Organization for Early Childhood Education OMEP Nigeria
SOS Children’s Village Schools, Nigeria
Deeper Life High Schools, Nigeria
Baptist Mission Schools, Nigeria
Catholic Schools Network, Lagos State
National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools NAPPS
Association of Model Islamic Schools AMIS
League of Muslim School Proprietors LEAMPS
Association of Christian Schools International
All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools ANCOPSS, South West Nigeria
Lagos State Teaching Service Commission TESCOM
Oyo State Teaching Service Commission TESCOM
Ogun State Universal Basic Education Board SUBEB
National Union of Private Schools, NUPS Sierra Leone
Ghana National Union of Private Schools
LICOSESS College of Education, Liberia
Global Educational Supplies and Solutions, GESS Dubai
University of Oulu, Finland,
The Indian High School, Dubai
University of Dubai, just to mention a few
Dr Adebare Egunjobi is currently the Lead Consultant for the budding West African Association of Proprietors of Private Schools
Some of the educational books he has written include:
What Every Teacher Must Know
What Every School Administrator Must Know
The Passionate Teacher
Essentials of School Business in Africa, etc
In 2020, he was named by GESS Awards among 20 personalities with the most outstanding contributions to the development of education in the world! The glamorous event which was held in Dubai attracted participants from over 50 countries in attendance!
Adebare Egunjobi holds a Masters degree in Educational Administration and Planning and a Ph.d in Educational Leadership and Administration
