UBEC moves to improve teaching, learning in almajiri schools
The Executive Secretary of UBEC, Hamid Boboyi, stated this in Kaduna, at the opening of a five-day training programme for 135 Master Trainers to improve the quality of teaching in Integrated Quranic Tsangaya Education .
“From the inception of the programme to date, the Federal Government had constructed 157 Model Tsangaya Schools in 27 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja,” he said. According to him, states have defaulted in the areas of feeding the learners, deployment of basic education teachers and welfare of the teachers.He said that the current administration reviewed the programme in 2016 to ensure that every stakeholder participate in the programme from conception, planning to implementation.
He said that the pilot scheme was introduced in nine states with the plan to scale-up to all other states where the Almajiri phenomenon was endemic. “This training was, therefore, organised to build the capacity of the master trainers to train the IQTE school teachers in their respective states.
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