The Bauchi State Government has renovated 250 faculties throughout the state and spent greater than ₦800 million to pay examination charges for 24,917 college students, the state Ministry of Education has stated.
The Commissioner for Education, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, disclosed this in a press release on Monday, highlighting the administration’s interventions to enhance entry to high quality schooling by means of examination sponsorship, faculty renovation, security measures, help for adolescent ladies and plans to broaden secondary faculty infrastructure.
According to him, the federal government spent greater than ₦800 million to cowl examination charges for 24,917 college students sitting for examinations carried out by the National Examinations Council (NECO), West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) and National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS).
In the assertion signed by the ministry’s Information and Public Relations Officer, Jalaludeen Usman, Ibrahim stated the intervention had eased the monetary burden on mother and father and guardians whereas giving college students, notably these in public faculties, higher alternatives to pursue their tutorial ambitions with out examination charges changing into an impediment.
The commissioner additionally disclosed that 250 faculties had been renovated throughout the state’s 20 native authorities areas underneath the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), a World Bank-assisted challenge.
He stated the Bauchi State Government supplied counterpart funding of greater than ₦150 million to help the challenge’s implementation, reinforcing its dedication to bettering faculty infrastructure and increasing instructional alternatives.
Beyond infrastructure improvement, Ibrahim stated 12,133 adolescent ladies had benefited from conditional money transfers underneath the AGILE challenge.
He defined that the initiative was designed to scale back monetary obstacles to schooling, encourage faculty attendance and enhance the retention of women at school.
According to him, the money transfers complement the varsity renovation programme by addressing each insufficient studying services and among the financial challenges that stop youngsters, notably ladies, from accessing and finishing their schooling.
The commissioner additional revealed that the state authorities was planning to assemble 42 new secondary faculties throughout the 20 native authorities areas to broaden entry to secondary schooling.
He additionally highlighted the administration’s deal with faculty security and different measures geared toward making a extra supportive studying setting for college students.
Ibrahim expressed gratitude to Almighty Allah and recommended Governor Bala Mohammed for sustaining investments within the schooling sector regardless of competing calls for on public assets.
He reaffirmed the ministry’s dedication to implementing the administration’s schooling insurance policies, bettering faculty services and guaranteeing that public investments ship tangible advantages to college students, lecturers, mother and father and communities.
The commissioner maintained that schooling remained central to the state’s improvement agenda, including that the federal government would proceed to pursue initiatives geared toward constructing a extra inclusive, accessible and efficient schooling system for current and future generations.
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