Senate Plans National Summit Over Deplorable State of Education
Concerned by the continued decay of the educational sector in the country, the Senate plans to hold a national summit to find the way forward.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Joy Emordi, who disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, said the two-day summit will hold next month.
According to her, “The East Asian tigers that started off at about the same level with Nigeria about 50 years ago have developed not because of natural resources, but through well focused and well implemented education programmes”.
Emordi lamented that because of the decline in the standard of education, products of Nigerian schools are hardly considered adequately prepared for the world of work and in some countries qualified for direct admission into higher degree programmes.
She noted that even within Nigeria some employers discriminate against graduates of some institutions, saying that the summit would be used to take a comprehensive stock of the sector with a view to identifying and effectively resolving contending issues in the sector.
Emordi explained that the theme of the summit is ‘Repositioning Nigeria’s Educational System for the Achievement of the National 2020 Vision’.
Some of issues to be discussed, according to her, include basic education; secondary education; funding and financial education and entrepreneurship education.
Others are quality assurance in education; open and distance learning education; teacher education and university education.
