The federal authorities has launched a brand new coverage framework designed to decrease schooling prices for folks whereas bettering studying outcomes throughout colleges.
Tunji Alausa, minister of schooling, and Suwaiba Ahmed, minister of state for schooling, collectively issued the coverage in Abuja on Friday.
The framework additionally focuses on sustainability by encouraging the usage of sturdy, reusable textbooks and reinforcing high quality assurance requirements.
The ministers mentioned the initiative is a part of ongoing reforms geared toward repositioning the schooling sector and easing the {financial} burden on households.
They defined that the coverage prioritises standardised textbooks constructed to final between 4 and 6 years and bans the follow of attaching disposable workbooks to textbooks in colleges.
In accordance with the ministers, the measures will enable studying supplies to be reused throughout tutorial periods, allow siblings to share books, lower recurring prices for folks and scale back environmental waste.
Additionally they disclosed that the federal authorities has adopted a uniform tutorial calendar to make sure consistency in instructing, studying and college planning nationwide.
The ministers mentioned commencement ceremonies have been restricted to pupils and college students finishing Major Six, Junior Secondary Faculty 3 and Senior Secondary Faculty 3 to curb avoidable bills imposed on mother and father.
They added that the framework strengthens evaluation, choice, monitoring and high quality assurance processes for textbooks and tutorial supplies throughout the nation.
The ministers famous that the reforms reply to long-standing issues over beauty textbook revisions, weak rating practices and the annual alternative of books with out significant enhancements in content material.
They defined that the coverage introduces structured revision cycles that require substantive content material upgrades fairly than minor structure or design modifications.
The ministers additional mentioned limits have been positioned on the variety of accepted textbooks per topic and grade stage, in keeping with worldwide practices seen in international locations resembling Japan, Kenya and Tanzania.
They acknowledged that the Nigerian Instructional Analysis and Growth Council will proceed to supervise textbook evaluation and high quality assurance in collaboration with related schooling businesses.
The ministers reaffirmed the federal authorities’s dedication to schooling reform and counseled the Common Fundamental Training Fee, the Nigerian Instructional Analysis and Growth Council and different companions for his or her roles in creating the coverage.
They added that the federal government stays dedicated to defending academic requirements, selling fairness, lowering prices for folks and increasing entry to high quality studying supplies nationwide.