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| Prof Mala Daura |
The Technical Committee to revitalize Basic and Secondary Education in
Yobe State has submitted its interim
reports to Gov. Mai Mala Buni with shocking revelation on the death of
education in the state.
Some of the shocking revelations made by the committee is the death of
infrastructure in the primary and secondary schools leading to overcrowding
where 180 students were seat on the floor, log of woods as improvised seats in
the classrooms.
The condition the committee noted represents 70% of gross deficit in
the number of functional classrooms in primary and secondary schools in the
state.
The Chairman of the Technical Committee and former Vice Chancellor of
University of Maiduguri, Prof. Mohammed Daura while presenting the report to
Gov. Mai Mala Buni at the government House Damaturu today said the committee
visited a total of 1439 primary, junior and senior secondary schools to carry
out their baseline survey.
He added that a few schools from from hard to reach areas in Yunusari,
Tarmuwa, Gujba and other places were inaccessible for the survey.
Revealing his findings, Prof. Daura revealed that inadequacies in the
quality of techers at the basic and secondary school levels, political
interference in the recruitment process, promotion, posting and rampant transfers of teachers.
While the committee discovered an existing clear leadership,
supervision and monitoring as well as capacity building for teachers, it
however noted that the system is weak and needed to be strengthened to be more
effective.
The committee also disclosed that a there is a general enrollment
outlook of 60% of eligible pupils/students in the state but regrettably with a
high proportion of 40% that are out-of-school.
The teaching and learning environment in the urban setting and local
Government Headquarters are overstretched from overcrowding, just as the rural
areas maintain poor enrollment and retention level. This, the committee
observed is aggravated by the decline in the involvement of traditional rulers
as well as the Boko Haram insurgency.
The committee also frowned at the unstructured state of the Tsangaya
/Quranic Schools in the state which has become a dumping ground for the
students both within and from outside the state while emphasizing the need for
the regulation of the sector in the state.
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| Gov. Buni with members of the Technical Committee on Education in Yobe State |
Prof Daura in his submission made five recommendations which
includes;
Ø That government should carryout a man power
audit with the aim of screening all teaching staff and identify qualified teachers for recruitment at each
level as well as those that training and re-training to build their capacity.
Ø Government and Stakeholders should
immediately undertake an advocacy and sensitization program for parents,
community, pupils/students, teachers, private schools operators as well as
Ulamas.
Ø Establish one model science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in each senatorial district of the state.
Ø The governor to link up with the Presidency
on how to tap from the Natural Resources Funds to develop the Basic and
Secondary education sector.
Ø Government to initiate a process of getting
in touch and familiarize with the procedures of securing support from all the
sources of funding recommended in their report.
Receiving the report, Governor Mai Mala Buni praised the members of the
committee for working tirelessly to work within the time frame given to them to
perform their task.
The governor promised a full implementation of the recommendations of the
committee within the available resources of the state.
Consequently, a Yobe Education summit was convened on the 1st
-2nd July to brainstorm on the way forward with the appointment of
Prof. Mohammed Duara to head the Technical Committee to revitalized Basic and
Secondary Education in the state.
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