The Nigerian House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to increase funding of education to at least 27 per cent of the actual capital expenditures for the next 4 years.
According
to Leadership reports, the FG was also asked to review teachers’
education and incentives in the bid to attract and retain the best
brains in the profession.
This plea, made yesterday, was sequel to the adoption of a motion tagged “Urgent Need to Arrest the Crisis of Basic and Secondary Education” The motion was sponsored by Hon. Muhammad Usman at plenary.
The house expressed their sadness about the fact that millions of
children of school age in the country have no access to basic and
secondary education. Usman said, “the lack of access to basic
education has placed Nigeria in the embarrassing position of having the
largest number of out-of-school children in the world which is placed at
10.5m before the out break of the insurgency.”
He expressed
worry that most primary and secondary schools in the country have
dilapidated structures, while some hold classes in the open air and have
up to 100 children per classroom.
“These levels of education
are characterised by poor teacher quality and inadequate number of
teachers who are poorly remunerated and motivated.
“Surveys
carried out in the past 2 years show that less than 25 per cent of
primary school teachers could pass the examinations they set for their
primaries 4 and 6 pupils “ Usman added.
He was also of the
opinion that all these issues are due to lack of funding, adding that
between 2005 and 2015, the expenditure on education by the Federal
Government has been less than 10 per cent.
SOURCE:Pulse
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