Education
Quality education central to our Agenda for National Transformation
May 18, 2011, 17:10
| | President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Wednesday has reaffirmed the centrality of rapid improvements in Nigeria’s educational sector to his Administration’s Agenda for National Transformation, declaring that the recommendations of the Presidential Task Team on Education will be diligently implemented to significantly raise the standards of education in the country.
Receiving the Task Team’s report and recommendations at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday, May 18, President Jonathan expressed the conviction that their efficient implementation will lead to the speedy resolution of many of the problems currently bedeviling Nigeria’s educational sector.
“Education is core to whatever we want to do as a nation. Nigeria cannot make much progress towards the attainment of its Vision 20-2020 unless we strengthen our educational system. We will therefore do our best in the next four years to reposition our educational sector in a way that the entire nation will appreciate,” the President said.
Assuring members of the Task Team led by Prof. Pai Obanya that their dedicated service and knowledgeable report will not be in vain, President Jonathan said that their recommendations will be an invaluable input to his administration’s agenda for revitalizing Nigeria’s educational sector.
He thanked Prof. Obanya and members of the team for their good work, saying that his Administration will continue to welcome their support and advice in its efforts to ensure that quality education becomes available in all parts of Nigeria once again.
The Presidential Task Team on Education was inaugurated by President Jonathan in January this year in the aftermath of the National Educational Summit convened by his Administration in October, 2010.
It had eight terms of reference which included reviewing the 6-3-3-4 educational system, institutional arrangements for Nigeria’s educational sector, funding arrangements, laws governing the educational sector, educational ethics and the role of teachers.
The team’s report to President Jonathan was in two volumes titled “Necessary First Steps In Moving Education Forward in Nigeria”. It included recommendations for reforming the 6-3-3-4 system and making it more result oriented.
The team also recommended accelerated action on the National Teacher Education Policy and the speedy implementation of the new Teachers Salary Scale.
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