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Brain Builders’ Youth Development Initiative tasks FG on Funding and Review of Education Curriculum

26/2/2022

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The Executive Director of Brain Builders’ Youth Development Initiative(BBYDI) Mr Olasupo  Abideen has tasked the federal and state governments and other stakeholders on the need to properly fund education, and review  education  curriculum in  order to  ensure that learning and learning  methods meet the current realities and therefore overcome the unforseen  challenges created by Covid-19 pandemic .
He said that the recommendation became necessary because the NGOs findings revealed that students were largely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, as schools were closed and had their studies distrupted,saying  that “This culminated in them spending additional year on campus which left some of them stranded, in hunger,anger and anxiety.”

Other stakeholders such as representatives of Kwara state government and Kwara State Polytechnic among were present at the occasion.

Below are the highlighted ” the recommendations of the NGO in partnership with Global Campaign  for Education (GCE)after a research work to assess the effect of Covid-19 pandemic on education sector and how it affected the work environment.
He said the recommendations are expected to  strengthen the Nigeria’s Education System and enable its preparedness for unforseen circumstances like Covid-19 pandemic.

He also said that Nigeria’s Internet penetrative is currently poor,”therefore the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) must collaborate with the ministry of education to ensure that Higher institutions and their surbubs have access to quality Internet.

Also NCC must deepenits efforts to implement the National Broadband Plan to improve  Internet penetration across the country “
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He further urged the Federal government to improve accreditation criteria for higher  education institutions.

Source: Vanguard


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