The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), says it has reviewed minimum standard for basic education and developed a new quality assurance framework to improve the quality of basic education in the country.
Dr Hamid Bobboyi, the Executive Secretary, UBEC, made this known in Kaduna on Monday at the opening of three-day training on the use of the reviewed standards and quality assurance instruments.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the training was organised for quality assurance officials of UBEC and State Universal Basic Education Boards in the North-West and North-East.
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Bobboyi said that UBEC management had approved 2.0 per cent of SUBEB intervention funds for quality assurance in states, to promote effective and efficient monitoring and evaluation in schools.
The UBEC boss, who was represented by the Director, Administration and Supplies, Rev. Edwin Jarumai, noted that the quality of teaching and learning largely determined progress in terms of growth, development and global competitiveness.
He said that quality assurance involved all the processes that contribute to the attainment of expected learning outcomes.
According to Bobboyi, effective quality assurance system will drive quality basic education.
He assured that UBEC will ensure that all prescribed standards are met towards achieving the required quality in the basic education system.
“There is growing concern about the issue of quality teaching and learning in basic education. This means that we all have to rise and build a model for educational effectiveness.
“The quality assurance departments in UBEC, SUBEB and Local Government Education Authority will be strengthened with adequate manpower and means of mobility to monitor what is happening in schools.”
Also speaking, UBEC’s Quality Assurance Director, Malam Mansir Idris, said: “It is pertinent that we recognise the dynamism of quality assurance and understand the need for change if we must succeed.
“We must not continue to do the same thing if we are not getting the desired results, we need to be more pro-active and adopt a broad-based remedy to assure quality inputs and outcome in basic education.”
Idris said that the training would be conducted in all the remaining zones to bring all quality assurance officers on the same page.
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