Yobe governor approves implementation of education technical committee report

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, who disclosed through a press
statement Wednesday said the committee’s report would be implemented through various education sector agencies in collaboration 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 ever Yobe Education Summit, which was held on July 1, 2019.

Some of the recommendations were, “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, 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 any gaps that may arise, 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 will 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 needs 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).”

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