Federal Government has asked the National Economic Summit Group, NESG to immediately review Nigeria’s education policy developed in 1969 to meet current challenges.
At the opening of the 20th Nigeria Economic Summit, with the theme “Transforming Education through Partnership for Global
Competitiveness,” yesterday in Abuja, President Goodluck Jonathan said “more than 40 years after, this policy foundation is
ripe for review, to determine its relevance and fine tune its adaptability to national objectives, in this 21st Century.”
Represented by Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo, the President said:”It is my hope that this Summit will take up this challenge; by applying itself rigorously to the design of an ideal education system that will satisfy our national needs and aspirations.”
President Jonathan stressed that his administration holds education in high premium, adding that it was key to accelerating national transformation and development. He further said “education had changed the destiny of nations, big and small and we are determined to change our story for the very best”.
Accordingly, he said the government had identified access, quality and equity as the main strategic goal of Nigerian education, stressing that government had introduced several initiatives to achieve these goals, such as girl and boy-child education, the Almajiri System, teacher training and retraining, increased funding and other far-reaching policy reforms at all levels of the education system.
President Jonathan called for more partnership between the three tiers of government, the private sector and international development partners in designing credible accountability frameworks that will impact positively on the sector.
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