Buni okays implementation of report on Yobe’s basic, secondary education

Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe state has approved the implementation of the technical committee set up to revitalise basic and secondary education in the state.

The governor’s spokesman, Abdullahi Bego, stated this through a press statement Wednesday saying the committee’s report would be implemented over time through various education sector agencies in coordination with the Office of the Secretary to the State Government.

The committee, led by former vice chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, Professor Malah Daura, was set up by the governor following the first Yobe Education Summit, which was held on July 1, 2019.

Some of the recommendations include, “manpower audit to screen all teaching staff across the state, authenticate their certificates and the forms or types of formal training they had gone through and conduct of basic, general and professional competency tests on teachers in the state.”

Others were identification of teachers who need training, re-training or re-assigning to other sectors as appropriate and how to fill in gaps that may arise.

Others are identification of additional qualified teachers for recruitment at all levels of the school system.

The statement also, said, “Establishment of one model school for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in each of the three senatorial districts of the state. Three existing schools are to be converted for this purpose and a steering committee that has already been set up will work to formalise arrangements for conversion of the schools and the conduct of need assessment to meet immediate take off requirements.”

“The schools earmarked for STEM education are Government Secondary School, Damaturu, (Zone A), Government Science and Technical College Potiskum, (Zone B), and Government Science and Technical College, Nguru

(Zone C),” the statement read in part.

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