The Development Research Project Centre (dRPC) is working with interest groups and stakeholders to boost secondary and girls’ education.
The effort was made to ensure that more girls have access to education by prioritizing the enrolment and retention of girls. It would also improve learning outcomes and attendance in secondary schools.
The centre recently conducted stakeholders meeting in Abuja on secondary and girls’ education.
Jigawa State Commissioner for Education, Rabi Ishaq, said during the meeting that quality teaching was low in the basic schools because teachers haven’t applied the skills obtained from teachers’ institutes to deliver lessons.
“Most of the children learn nothing in schools these days,” she said.
She said stakeholders and governments must act as a team to address the challenges.
Executive Director of dRPC, Judith Walker, said funding agencies should be flexible to enable non-government organisations provide support in girls’ and secondary education where necessary.
The representative of the Kano Emirates Council, Mohammed Abubakar, said education for girls and women was the most important way to improve the lives of individual families and that the traditional institution would support girls’ education.
He said, “We have pledges from Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II to make crucial impacts on the education of the girl-child across northern Nigeria.”
Christey Musa of Malala Foundation said to ensure a major increase in secondary school enrolment for girls, out-of-school girls should be motivated to acquire education.
She said, “It is important we raise up girls who are out of school and we partner with traditional institutions.”
