Education
Minister Flays Non-Implementation Of Committee Reports
The Minister of Education, Prof. Rukkayatu Rufa’I, has decried the non-implementation of reports submitted by various committees.
A statement from the ministry in Abuja stated that Rufa’l made the comment, while receiving the report of the Presidential Task Force on Education, which was inaugurated in 2010.
She said, “We have a good system, but we have been having so many problems. Our main problem in the sector is not having committees and the reports, but that the reports are not being implemented.
“We have good recommendations on the shelves. In five or 10 years, we would have similar committees and similar recommendations.
“If we have been implementing the committees’ recommendations, we should have gone a long way
by now.’’
The minister commended members of the committee and assured them that their recommendations would be submitted to the president.
Earlier, the Chairman of the committee, Prof. Pai Obanya, thanked the president for giving them the opportunity to serve.
Obanya said, “the work is structured. We are guided by the advice of the president and the minister and at the end we came out with preliminary reports
“The work has just began, and we will be willing to help in various ways to ensure its continuation.”
He said that the committee had a seven-point agenda, which covered virtually the problem areas in education as identified by a summit.
He said that the committee looked at the management and coordination mechanism for education, like funding, and the laws regulating education.
Obanya said that the committee also looked at what could be done to bring the best people to teach in order to turn schools into educational institutions.
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