The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says only one in three children are enrolled for early childhood education in Nigeria.
According to NAN, Yetunde Oluwatosin, UNICEF education specialist, said this on Wednesday at a two-day media dialogue on early child education , organised in partnership with child rights information bureau of the federal ministry of education.
“It has been observed that large inequalities persist between the poorest children and the richest children’s ECE attendance rate, translating to 8 percent and 87 percent, respectively,” NAN quoted Oluwatosin as saying.“In West and Central Africa, only one in four attend ECE. In Nigeria, only one in three children attend, but at least 10 million children are not enrolled.
“We also need to strengthen the roles of parents as the first educator of the child, provide adequate funding for pre-primary education, build the capacity of teachers, and provide adequate curriculum for ECE,” she added. “This pupils/teachers ratio is low and we must do something to improve this. This disparity is there and we are still far behind in achieving the SDG goals.”Also speaking, Geoffrey Njoku, UNICEF communications specialist, said stakeholders must focus more on childhood education, adding that adequate use of resources will improve learning.
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