The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has called on the government and other stakeholders to exploit the opportunities digitalisation offers for the
This comes as the nation joins the rest of Africa to commemorate the day of the African Child’s Day.
In a statement issued on Thursday by the UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Cristian Munduate, the agency lamented that the disruption to education by school attacks has meant millions of children have significantly missed out on learning, noting that about 10 million children are not in school at the primary level.
The statement further disclosed that UNICEF had collaborated with the Federal Ministry of Education to launch the Nigeria Learning Passport, NLP, last year, an online, mobile, and offline digital learning platform powered by Microsoft that enables continuous access to 15,000 curriculum-aligned learning and training materials in local languages for learners, teachers, and parents.
Munduate noted that the education sector in Nigeria faces many challenges, including access to quality learning inhibited by low domestic spending on education, resulting in limited school infrastructure and qualified teachers, high levels of poverty and social norms not supportive of education, especially for girls.
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