Stakeholders want access to education improved in conflict zones

The federal government has been urged to make more efforts to improve access to quality education in the North East and other parts of the country.

The Common Heritage Foundation (CHF), a non-governmental organisation, made the call in Abuja at a stakeholders’ workshop on the implementation of the UBE Act and other educational policies in conflict zones.

A senior special educationist with the World Bank, Prof. Tunde Adekola, said improving access to education in conflict zones required the support of both the formal and informal sectors.

“Everybody needs to work together with several other government agencies to improve access to basic education.

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“Part of the challenges are systemic; we should see how we can involve more partnerships, collaboration, and cooperation from all the state actors to be able to focus on the issue of access, quality, equity, and so on,” he said.

An associate professor of Law at the Nasarawa State University, Dr Halima Doma, said the event was to bring together stakeholders and a group of researchers who had worked in the area of education in the North East to discuss how to improve access to education in the zone and assess the extent the Universal Basic Education Act, which provides free and compulsory basic education for children, has been implemented, particularly in Adamawa State.