Education
Boost Revenue Generation, Minister Tells COEs
The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, has urged Colleges of Education in the country to boost their internally generated revenue in readiness for assuming their new status as degree awarding institutions.
She made the call in Abuja on Friday when the Forum of Chairmen, Governing Councils of the Federal Colleges of Education paid her a courtesy visit.
A statement signed by Mr Timothy Akpoili, Press Secretary to the minister, quoted Rufa’i as saying that the revenue drive would assist the governing councils in embarking on infrastructural development of their schools.
She said it would also help to raise the standard of their colleges, as well as make them attractive and fit enough to be degree awarding institutions.
Rufa’i explained that the education sector required huge funding, and stressed the need to sensitise the society and donor agencies for more assistance.
“If we get it right in the education sector, we will get it right in all other sectors,” she added.
The minister also stressed the need to provide adequate infrastructure and facilities to enable the colleges become degree awarding institutions, and urged the governing councils to come up with strategies to improve the existing facilities.
The Chairperson of the forum, Mrs Grace Ekong, had earlier expressed their concern over the inadequate funding of the education sector.
She appealed to stakeholders to work toward ensuring that the global requirement for every country to allot 26 per cent of its annual national budget to the education sector was attained.
Ekong commended the minister’s efforts at ensuring that the threat by the unions in the Federal Colleges of Education to go on strike was averted.
She appealed to Rufa’i to facilitate the payment of outstanding allowances to the colleges as contained in the agreement signed by both parties.
She also requested that the governing councils be given autonomy, and appropriate authority to enable them to successfully steer the institutions once they attained their degree awarding status.
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