FEDERAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

Basic Education PresentationBy

The Honourable Minister Of State For Education, Chief (Barr.) Ezenwo Nyesom Wike

FOCAL POLICIES FOR 2012

.ACCESS AND EQUITY

.STANDARD AND QUALITY

ASSURANCE

ENABLING POLICY AND PROGRAMME PRIORITIES

• Strengthening the institutional management of education

• Teacher education and development

• Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

• Funding, Partnerships & Effective Resource mobilization

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR 2012 RELATED TO THE

TRANSFORMATION AGENDA

-- Develop strategic plan to direct the implementation of policies

-- Deliver 100 Almajiri Schools

-- Rehabilitate and upgrade facilities at Federal Unity Colleges

-- Increase access and disbursement of UBEC Intervention Funds

-- Develop the capacity / quality of teachers

-- Reduce the number of out of school children

LITERACY EFFORTS: CROSS CUTTING PROGRAMMES

• Bring Back The Book campaign

• The Read Campaign

• Reading Across Curriculum

• Early Childhood Care Education—Emphasis on reading

• CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:

Literacy Among Children Age 4-12 By Sex And Region

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

NC NE NW SE SS SW

Male

Female

Literacy Among Men Age 15-59 And Women 15-49

72%

28%

Men

52%48%

Women

Able to read Unable to read

JOURNEY SO FAR

• Development of a 4 year strategic plan – a coordinated approach to addressing the challenges facing the education sector

• Principals of Federal Government Unity Schools encouraged to share documented challenges with HMSE & FME

• HMSE’s unscheduled tours of selected Federal Unity Colleges across the country to personally ascertain their degree of infrastructural dilapidation

CURRENT STATE OF MOST UNITY SCHOOLS (CLASSROOMS)

CURRENT STATE OF MOST UNITY SCHOOLS (DORMITORY)

CURRENT STATE OF MOST UNITY SCHOOLS (DORMITORY)

CURRENT STATE OF MOST UNITY SCHOOLS (CLASSROOM)

A REASURANCE OF A BRIGHTER FUTURE

JOURNEY SO FAR• Development of an action plan on rehabilitating

and repositioning Federal Government Unity Schools to their former glory and for the purposes for which they were set up (3 Unity Schools per year in each geo-political zone)

• Budget presented, defended and approved• Workshop for Principals, Procurement Officers and

Bursars of Federal Unity Colleges to chart a way forward for a strategic, acceptable, appropriate, effective and efficient utilization of funds to ensure the best value for money

• NEXT STEP: Effective and efficient implementation of action plan, as provided for in the budget.

ACCESS AND EQUITY

• Construction of boarding and day schools under the Almajiri Education Programme:

• In addition to the 32 Almajiri schools already constructed in the phase 1, Universal Basic Education Commission is constructing 60 more Almajiri schools in 16 states of the Federation

• Construction of Girl Education Programmeschools in 16 states of the Federation being carried out

ALMAJIRI SCHOOLS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION ACROSS

NIGERIA (UBEC)• BORNO• ADAMAWA• KANO• KADUNA• ZAMFARA• NIGER• RIVERS• BAUCHI• KATSINA• YOBE• SOKOTO• OYO• LAGOS• OGUN• OSUN• EDO

ALMAJIRIS REACHING OUT TO A BRIGHTER FUTURE INSTEAD OF ALMS

ALMAJIRI SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT AKPATA

ELERE, IBADAN

ALMAJIRI SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, AKPATA

ELERE, IBADAN

CONTRACTOR BEING PUT ON NOTICE AT AKPATA ELERE, IBADAN

ALMAJIRI SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, OYO TOWN

INSIDE A CLASSROOM UNDER CONSTRUCTION, OYO TOWN

ALMAJIRI SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, ZARIA

AT AN ALMAJIRI SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SITE, PAGO, NIGER

ALMAJIRI SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, PAGO, NIGER

ALMAJIRI SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, MAGUMERI, BORNO

ALMAJIRI SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, MAGUMERI, BORNO

ALMAJIRI SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN DAURA, KATSINA

ALMAJIRI SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, SOKOTO

ALMAJIRI SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, BAUCHI

STANDARD AND QUALITY ASSURANCE

• Review / development of Basic education curriculum to meet national objectives:

• Framework for review of Basic Education Curriculum developed

• Consumer Education Curriculum developed• Teacher guides for Senior Secondary Education

in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics developed

• Vocational skills included in Nomadic Education Curriculum

STANDARD AND QUALITY ASSURANCE (2)

• Production and distribution of 19,600,000 English Language, Mathematics, Basic Science and Technology activity books for Primaries 1, 2 and 3 completed across the Federation

• 4,944,000 library resource materials provided for Junior Secondary schools

TEACHER EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT

• Teacher Capacity Development programmesby NTI and UBEC

• Principals and Vice Principals Of Federal Government Colleges trained on school based management committee policies and whole school development planning

• 28,000 Head Teachers from all geo-political zones trained on how to manage and work effectively with the wider community

TEACHER EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT (2)

• 125,000 teachers trained by NTI to deepen their content knowledge and sharpen their instructional skills

• Training of 103 Junior Secondary School Principals and Head Teachers to enhance their instructional leadership skills for quality education delivery

• Training workshop on school leadership and management for Principals and Head Teachers in collaboration with Commonwealth of Learning

TEACHER DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION(3)

• Selected Science Teachers from all states of the Federation sponsored for training in Canada

• Training of Inspectors and Principals of public schools commenced; to improve instructional quality and enhance student achievement

TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING(TVET)

• Development of international partnership on Technical, Vocational Education and Training with Highbury College, Portsmouth and the Portsmouth business community in the strategic delivery of TVET programmes and Entrepreneurial Education in Nigeria

• Commitment from International Development Partners such as Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA) to scale up interventions in TVET and related areas

TVET BRIEFING, PORTSMOUTH COLLEGE, UK

TVET BRIEFING, PORTSMOUTH COLLEGE, UK

TVET BRIEFING, PORTSMOUTH COLLEGE, UK

TVET BRIEFING, PORTSMOUTH COLLEGE, UK

FUNDING, PARTNERSHIPS AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION

• Bilateral relationship with China resulting in the construction and handing over of an ultra model primary school in Nyayan, Abuja to basic education

• Bilateral cooperation with Korea culminating in the construction of vocational centers in Kogiand schools in Adamawa and Gombe states

• The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) providing in-service training through the Strengthen Mathematics And Science Education (SMASE) programme

HANDING OVER OF ULTRA MODEL PRIMARY SCHOOL, NYANYAN TO

BASIC EDUCATION BY THE CHINESE

HMSE COMMISSIONS THE ULTRA MODEL PRIMARY SCHOOL IN

NYANYAN

HMSE VISITS THE STUDENTS

FUNDING, PARTNERSHIP AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION(2)

• Bilateral relationship with Korea resulting in the training of Education Managers to enhance quality of school administrators at the basic level

• Bilateral cooperation with Korea culminating in the training of 60 Mathematics and other science related subject teachers at the Basic education level.

FUNDING, PARTNERSHIP AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION

• Bilateral cooperation with Japan (JICA) resulting in the construction of a vocational center in Kaduna

• Presently about 100% of the states of the Federation have accessed UBEC funds, meant for the provision of facilities at the Basic education level, especially due to domiciliation with commercial banks

SUMMARY OF UBEC MATCHING GRANT ACCESSED BEFORE AND AFTER DOMICILIATION WITH COMMERCIAL

BANKS20 months before domiciliation with commercial banks

20 months after domiciliation with commercial banks

Increase / (Decrease)

% Increase / (Decrease)

41,218,121,507.37 50,751,928,897.48 9,533,807,390.11 23.13%

UBEC MATCHING GRANT DISBURSEMENT PERFORMANCE AS AT

25TH APRIL, 2012

NUMBER OF STATES PERCENTAGE ACCESSED REMARKS

10 91%-95% TOP PERFORMING

17 77%-86% PERFORMING

8 58%-74% AVERAGE PERFORMING

2 49%-53% NON-PERFORMING

TOTAL=37 (+FCT) 100% ACCESSED *ALL STATES NEED TO BE TOP PERFORMING.

THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

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