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Policy Reversals'll Boost Educational Devt – FG From Onwuka Nzeshi in Abuja, 09.06.2007 http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=88507 The Federal Government yesterday said that recent policy reversals in the education sector were in the best interest of the country, given the fact that the policies being revisited were formulated and rolled out in a hurry without due recourse to existing legislations. The explanation followed a confirmation that the Inspectorate Division of the Federal Ministry of Education which was merged with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) in the heat of the reforms of the past administration has been returned to the parent ministry. Minister of Education, Dr. Igwe Aja-Nwachuku gave the confirmation while receiving the Director and Country Representative of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in Nigeria, Mr. Abhimanyu Singh The new Inspectorate Service Division, the minister disclosed, will be strengthened to effectively police the operations of primary and secondary schools across the country and ensure that good standards in terms of infrastructure, quality of teaching and learning were maintained at all times in the nation’s school system. In addition, Aja Nwachuku said, the Inspectorate Services Division would be transformed and empowered like the National Universities Commission (NUC) to effectively and efficiently carry out its functions. The last administration relocated the Inspectorate Division to the Universal Basic Education Commission on the excuse that the division had failed woefully to carry out its statutory functions in the sector. According to Aja Nwachuku,, cultism, examination malpractices and other social vices now plaguing tertiary institutions across the country could have been effectively curtailed if purposeful and regular supervision services were carried out at the primary and secondary school levels of the nation’s educational system. He therefore sought the cooperation of UNESCO in building the capacity of the Inspectorate Services Division to carry out its functions. UNESCO boss disclosed that he was at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Education to intimate the new leadership of the ministry on the various levels of cooperation existing between Nigeria and UNESCO in the field of education. Singh said that UNESCO had in the past assisted Nigeria in strengthening and implementing a National Plan for Education For All (EFA); promotion of free and compulsory primary education as well as improvement of girl child education in parts of the country. The It will be recalled that the Federal Government recently commenced a serial suspension of reforms initiated in the education sector during the Obasanjo administration claiming that some of the policies were formulated and implemented without due recourse to existing laws. First to be knocked down was the consolidation of tertiary educational institutions in which the last administration sought to phase out the polytechnics by merging them with the universities. The Federal Scholarship Board which was excised from the Federal Ministry of Education and merged with the Education Trust Fund (ETF) during the tenure of Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili as Minister of Education was returned to its original place while arrangements were rolled out for an expanded stakeholders summit to enable all relevant agencies, interest groups and institutions in the sector brainstorm on the way forward for educational development in Nigeria. |
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