Bauchi Govt Holds Education Summit to Address Out of School Issues, Improve Teachers Skills

By Abdullahi Idris, Bauchi  In Bauchi State Stakeholders in the Education Sector from within and outside the state are undergoing a two-day ...

By Abdullahi Idris, Bauchi 

In Bauchi State Stakeholders in the Education Sector from within and outside the state are undergoing a two-day education summit in a bid to provide a roadmap in addressing critical challenges being faced in the education industry across the state.

 The theme of the summit” Improving Access to Quality Education” would provide an opportunity for the participants to brainstorm and proper solution to the challenges identified to enable the state to align with locally acceptable ways of building the capacity of teachers, especially at the basic education level.

Organized by the State Ministry of Education, the event was also designed to serve as an avenue for formulating policies and mobilising the required resources through the engagement of all strategic and critical stakeholders towards providing equitable access to education that would guarantee the future of the younger generation.

Declaring the occasion open, Governor Bala highlighted some of the challenges that informed the decision to organize the summit including decay in infrastructure, inadequate training of teachers and as well as the growing number of out-of-school children in the state.

According to the governor, part of the commitment made by his administration in addressing the ugly trend includes the construction of over five thousand classrooms, approval for the employment of three thousand teachers and an increase in budgetary provision to the sector.

The State Minister of Education Dr. Yusuf Sununu who described education as a key to sustainable development assured that the federal remained resolute in supporting the state in line with the eight-point agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration aimed at restoring the quality of education.

The event featured goodwill messages from representatives of the Universal Basic Education Commission UBEC, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETfund, the National Centre for Colleges of Education NCCE and the United States Agency for International Development USAID, among others