By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –
In a bid to revamp educational sector in Borno State, Governor Babagana Zulum, has said the state government would establish a monitoring and evaluation committees for all public schools in Borno North, Central and South Senatorial District of the state.
Governor Zulum stated this on Tuesday in Maiduguri, while declaring open a three day conference for principals of secondary schools in the state, organized by the Borno State Ministry of Education, with the theme: “Revamping public secondary schools by addressing emerging challenges.
He also directed the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Usman Jidda Shuwa to review the functions and responsibilities of the Borno State Universal Basic Education (BSUBEB) so as to empower the board and improve in the quality and standard of basic education in the state.
The governor, further, assured that vehicles and logistics will be provided to the three zonal monitoring and evaluation committees to make them function effectively towards attaining quality educational standard.
Governor Zulum, however, lamented the degrading level of education and quality of teachers, pupils and students being produced in primary and secondary schools in the state following the effects the Boko Haram Insurgency, while pledging to prioritize quality education in the state through annual budgetary allocations and increase in the education sector budgets.
He charged the ministry of education to rise up to the challenges of standardizing quality education in primary and basic schools through synergy with the SUBEB and TSB.
Governor Zulum, who also described the conference as apt and timely, tasked the participants who are school principals to brainstorm extensively on the issues, problems and challenges confronting basic and secondary schoosl development and progress in the state with a viewed to profer suggestions and recommendations that will be beneficial and workable towards improving the quality of teaching and learning as well as educational sector of the state.
He also commended the state’s ministry of education, SUBEB and TSB for their initiatives in organizing the conference.
Earlier, the Chairman, Borno State Teaching Service Commission (TSB) , Professor Suleiman Bello thanked the governor for coming to the rescue of the educational sector with rehabilitation and construction of schools across the state, recruitment and training of teachers as well as provision of facilities and logistics to schools including payment of salaries and allowances among others.
The State Commissioner of Education, Engr. Lawan Abba Wakilbe commended the governor and his predecessor for improving the education sector with the construction and rehabilitation of schools and training of teachers apart from the recruitment of qualified teachers .
Engr. Wakilbe, however, noted that the education sector is still faced with dilapidated infrastructures and amenities like electricity, water supply, recreational facilities, teaching and learning materials and equipment, of which the details of the recommendations have been forwarded to the governor’s office for possible implementation.
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