The declining quality of education at all levels is one of the most frequently debated topic among stakeholders in education and the general public in Nigeria today. To support the preceding discussion, a 2018 World Bank Report warned of a learning crisis in Nigeria and other developing countries, which are facing…
Despite the establishment of Universal Basic Education in 1999, which is saddled with the responsibility of ensuring the acquisition of the appropriate levels of literacy, manipulative and life skills as well as the ethical, moral and civic values needed for laying the foundation for lifelong learning for children, have continued to be a mirage.
In this context, the United Nations Children’s Fund organized a two-day media dialogue on Sustainable Development Goals in Kano, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture’s Child Rights Information Bureau , with a focus on ‘Foundational Literacy and Numeracy,’ where experts x-rayed some of the underlying issues to be brought to the front burner.
“It is clear that to improve learning outcomes in Nigeria, achieving basic foundational skills at that level of learning cannot be overemphasised,” he said. In her virtual presentation, UNICEF Education Specialist, Manar Ahmed, lamented that there was a huge learning crisis in Nigeria which had led to over 70 percent of children not achieving basic foundational skills.
“Nigeria is facing a staggering learning crisis with learning outcomes being one of the lowest globally,” she said. He said: “The Sustainable Development Goals will remain a mirage until the rights of children are fulfilled. If you look at the situation in the education sector, we are already in a learning crisis, a situation where we are not just talking about millions of our children being out of school; we are also being faced with the challenge of those in school not being able to learn.
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