Abdullahi Muhammad
Abuja
Education Secretary, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Mallam Yakubu Musa Maikasuwa, has appealed to parents to ensure that children are registered with accredited schools in the new academic session.
He made this appeal while briefing Journalists on its activities for the year ending 2016.
He said that the inspectorate arm of the secretariat shut down about 556 illegal private schools in the FCT this year.
Maikasuwa, posited that the inspectorate arm, in the course of their work, discovered that 165 teachers were with teaching challenges and have been recommended for training at the teachers development division of the Education Resource Centre (ERC).
He revealed that the influx of people into FCT has resulted into the over stretching of available facility in some of the schools especially the urban and semi urban areas adding that this is true especially now that the FCT is now home to many internally displaced person IDPs around the country.
He further said that enrolment figures have increased in the schools without a corresponding increase of teaching staff and instructional materials.
While giving a breakdown of his activities to the press men Tuesday in Abuja Maikasuwa, said that about five thousand (5000) teachers will be deployed to FCT under Federal Government ”N-Power” scheme that takes off next year.
Responding, he said that the Abuja University of Technology, Abaji (AUTA) was yet to be accorded the legal status by the National Assembly.
According to him, the National Assembly was still deliberating on the matter concerning the university, adding that when it is passed into law, the FCTA will approach the National University Commission (NUC) for accreditation of programmes.
