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1. Federal Ministry of Education
Established: 1988
Minister: Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau
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2. Table of Contents
• Students-1
• Boys enrolled at Almajiri School
• Students-2
• UBEC: Universal Basic Education CommissionSafety-2
• Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programme
• Academic Staff
• Institutions: Development-1
• Institutions: Development-2
• Research Labs: Federal Government College, Lagos
• Institutional development
• Institutions: Growth-1
• Community Self-Help Projects
• Institutions: Growth-2
• Institutions: Growth-3
• Institutions: Regulation
• Resources
• TETFund
• TETFund Academic Staff Training and Development Programme
• Imo State Polytechnic Umuagwo
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3. Students-1
• 1st set of students admitted into 9 new federal
universities, established to increase access to tertiary
education.
• In 13 states the Girl Education Programme is being
implemented
• Back – To – School programme (Mmuta Bu’ike)
launched in Enugu to enhance access to education for
boys in the south east geo-political zone.
• 125 day and boarding schools are being constructed
under the Almajiri education programme in 27 states
such as Adamawa, Yobe, Zamfara, Nasarawa, Ebonyi,
Ekiti, Delta and Akwa Ibom.
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4. Boys enrolled at Almajiri School
In order to reduce the 10.5 million out of school children in the country, a
number of basic education programmes such as the Almajiri Education, the
Girl-Child Education and Back-to-School were initiated.
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5. Students-2
• 101 Presidential special scholarships awarded to 1st
class graduates in top 25 global institutions. Also to
encourage academic staff development in tertiary
institutions.
• The president approved N563million for scholarship
award as counterpart funding for foreign students.
• O’Level credit pass in English and Maths has gone up
from 25.99% before the Jonathan era to 70%
• Enrolment into the College of Education increased by
20% from 2011 to 2013 (620,000-750,000).
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6. UBEC: Universal Basic Education
Commission
• UBEC completed the harmonisation of Islamiyya and basic
education curriculum for implementation in Almajiri schools.
• Almajiri education programme commissioned by the president in
Sokoto 10th April, 2012 saw the completion of 32 schools.
• 64 Almajiri Model Schools recently began operation. These are part
of a list of 89 schools being constructed through UBEC. The
remaining 25 have been completed and will soon be handed over to
the host states.
• 300 additional Almajiri schools have been slated for construction in
line with the survey conducted.
• Basic school enrolment increased from 23 million to over 30
million. Further increase is expected due to the handover of Almajiri
schools to the state government.
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7. Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programme
N6 billion paid by UBEC for teachers capacity building in Nigeria. As a
result the Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programme has trained
approx. 299, 720 teachers.
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8. Academic Staff
• The Federal Government has sponsored 7,000 lecturers of
federal and state tertiary institutions for post-graduate
studies home and abroad to improve the quality of
instruction
• 25 Science teachers from across the federation sponsored
for training in Canada to enhance ability to train others
• Bilateral co-operation with Korea and Japan for basic level
training of Mathematics and Science teachers
• 17,000 teachers deployed to public primary schools in 34
states by the Federal Teachers Scheme.
• 28,000 primary school head teachers across the nation
underwent training to enhance leadership abilities.
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9. Institutions: Development-1
• Micro-teaching laboratories are under construction in
58 federal and state Colleges of Education across the
country.
• The MDG sponsored construction and furnishing of
105 blocks of 2, 3 & 4 classrooms, 2 examination halls,
4 community libraries, 4 generator houses, 9 computer
centres, 3 boreholes and 15 VIP toilets in 15 states.
• 27 Federal Universities connected via 10GBps meshed
trunk circuits, to form the Nigerian Research &
Education Network (Ng REN) with connectivity to
other international research networks
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10. Institutions: Development-2
• 1 year of formal early child education has been
introduced into the system.
• Curriculum for Entrepreneurship degree
programmes developed and approved in
established entrepreneurship centres across
tertiary institutions to help link education to work
and develop the entrepreneurial capacity of
graduates.
• Streamlining of part-time programmes at
undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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11. Research Labs: Federal Government College, Lagos
N15billion granted to all 51 Federal and State Polytechnics for the provision of
modern equipment and upgrading of existing laboratories.
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12. Institutional
development
The 104 Federal Unity
Colleges were granted
$250,000 used for the
renovation and equipping
of over 400 laboratories
and technical workshops,
provision of 62 ICT
equipment, 40 sets of
Mathematics kits, 72
libraries, approx. 39 e-
libraries and Science and
Technology textbooks.
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13. Institutions: Growth-1
• High Impact Fund to support higher institutions of
learning in becoming Centres of Excellence has been
established.
• Each selected University gets N3 billion; Polytechnics
and Colleges of Education N1 billion
• Budgetary allocations to education have doubled.
• The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has
increased enrolment capacity to 250,000 annually.
• Institutions that award the National Certificate of
Education (NCE) have increased from 96-124 since
2011.
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14. Community Self-Help Projects
Trained
Awaiting
Training
Approx. 2489 out of 3903
people are being trained as
part of community self-
help projects to address the
educational imbalance in
Nigeria.
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15. Institutions: Growth-2
• Approx. 41,000 School-Based Management
Committees (SBMCs) have been established to ensure
community involvement.
• 14 new universities established to improve access to
higher education and absorb thousands of students who
are denied university admission annually.
• 12 are conventional and 2 are specialized Police and
Maritime Universities
• N58 Billion was granted in 3 phases to Universities,
Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Nigeria to
encourage their development as Centres Of Excellence.
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16. Institutions: Growth-3
• Establishment of School of Midwifery Nguru,
north eastern Nigeria.
• The Safe Schools Initiative ensures that young
people school in environments ripe for learning,
growth and development free of fear.
• 3 nomadic education centres were established in
the north east and community-based nomadic
schools were rehabilitated.
• So far, about125 Tsangaya model schools have
been completed and furnished with modern
facilities.
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17. Institutions: Regulation
• Institutional accreditation for 36 Universities that
have met requirements i.e. 10 years and older
• Undergraduate Basic Minimum Academic
Standards (BMAS) reviewed for Universities,
Polytechnics and Colleges Of Education.
• Licences granted to 135 Innovation And
Vocational Enterprise Institutions to provide
alternative higher education and technical
training.
• 9 new private universities licensed, bringing total
number to 50.
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18. Resources
• 4,944,000 library resource materials provided
for Junior Secondary Schools across Nigeria.
• 19.6 Million English Language, Mathematics,
Basic Science and Technology Activity books
provided for Primaries 1, 2, and 3 and
distributed to schools all over Nigeria.
• Zonal academic publishing centres are under
construction across the country.
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19. TETFund
• The TETFund (Tertiary Education Trust Fund) comes from
a mandatory 2% education tax paid by all registered
companies and regulated by the FIRS.
• Over N500 billion has been spent, through the (TETFund)
and the special needs assessment fund on various projects to
increase access and improve the quality of infrastructure at
the tertiary level of our education system.
• The Fund encourages indigenous authorship by sponsoring
the development of 107 academic manuscripts into higher
education books –resuscitation of 173 institution-based
academic research journals, 1408 institution based research
projects launch of 33 cutting-edge National Research
projects worth N738 million as of November 2014.
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20. 0
500
1000
1500
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2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
PhD (Foreign
and Local)
Masters
(Foreign and
Local)
Benchwork
(Foreign)
Total
TETFund Academic Staff Training and
Development Programme, November
2014
Universities
Polytechnics
Colleges of Education
The TETFund
Academic Staff
Training and
Development
Programme trained
10,626 academic staff
as of November 2014
in local and
international PhD and
Masters programmes.
This benefited a total
of 196 tertiary
institutions.
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21. Imo State Polytechnic Umuagwo
The Administrative Block, courtesy of the TETFund.
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