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The Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa, has called for deeper collaboration with UNESCO to support Nigeria’s education reforms under President Bola Tinubu.
The Minister says more than one million out-of-school children had returned to school in the past 20 months, while nearly 6.7 million girls had benefited from interventions aimed at improving access and retention.
Alausa also identities priority areas of the government’s education reform programme: Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), STEM education, reintegration of out-of-school children, data and digitalisation, girl-child education, and quality assurance.
He however calls for greater attention to boys’ education while sustaining progress in girls’ education, and highlights the Accelerated Teacher Professional Programme, which targets one million in-service teachers.
UNESCO Country Representative to Nigeria, Professor Isaiah Barreto Da Rosa, reaffirms the organisation’s commitment to support Nigeria in TVET, teacher development, education for peace, science, culture, communication and information.
He says UNESCO supported programmes had trained more than 28,000 teachers and reached over 1.7 million students, while expressing readiness to deepen cooperation in TVET, teacher capacity development, digital education data and the reintegration of out-of-school children.
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