The Bauchi State Government has renovated 250 colleges throughout the state and spent greater than ₦800 million to pay examination charges for 24,917 college students, the state Ministry of Education has stated.
The Commissioner for Education, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, disclosed this in an announcement on Monday, highlighting the administration’s interventions to enhance entry to high quality training by way of examination sponsorship, faculty renovation, security measures, assist for adolescent ladies and plans to broaden secondary faculty infrastructure.
According to him, the federal government spent greater than ₦800 million to cowl examination charges for 24,917 college students sitting for examinations carried out by the National Examinations Council (NECO), West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) and National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS).
In the assertion signed by the ministry’s Information and Public Relations Officer, Jalaludeen Usman, Ibrahim stated the intervention had eased the monetary burden on dad and mom and guardians whereas giving college students, significantly these in public colleges, better alternatives to pursue their tutorial ambitions with out examination charges changing into an impediment.
The commissioner additionally disclosed that 250 colleges had been renovated throughout the state’s 20 native authorities areas below the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), a World Bank-assisted venture.
He stated the Bauchi State Government offered counterpart funding of greater than ₦150 million to assist the venture’s implementation, reinforcing its dedication to enhancing faculty infrastructure and increasing academic alternatives.
Beyond infrastructure improvement, Ibrahim stated 12,133 adolescent ladies had benefited from conditional money transfers below the AGILE venture.
He defined that the initiative was designed to cut back monetary boundaries to training, encourage faculty attendance and enhance the retention of women in class.
According to him, the money transfers complement the college renovation programme by addressing each insufficient studying services and a number of the financial challenges that forestall kids, significantly ladies, from accessing and finishing their training.
The commissioner additional revealed that the state authorities was planning to assemble 42 new secondary colleges throughout the 20 native authorities areas to broaden entry to secondary training.
He additionally highlighted the administration’s concentrate on faculty security and different measures geared toward making a extra supportive studying setting for college kids.
Ibrahim expressed gratitude to Almighty Allah and counseled Governor Bala Mohammed for sustaining investments within the training sector regardless of competing calls for on public assets.
He reaffirmed the ministry’s dedication to implementing the administration’s training insurance policies, enhancing faculty services and making certain that public investments ship tangible advantages to college students, lecturers, dad and mom and communities.
The commissioner maintained that training remained central to the state’s improvement agenda, including that the federal government would proceed to pursue initiatives geared toward constructing a extra inclusive, accessible and efficient training system for current and future generations.
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