ORDINARILY, President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of N75,000 for Education students in our public and polytechnic universities and N50,000 in Colleges of Education per semester should be acclaimed by all education-loving Nigerians.
Education Minister Adamu Adamu said at this year’s celebration of World Teachers’ Day in Abuja on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 that it was part of the president’s package to attract the best brains to the teaching profession. The minister also said that his ministry will work with state governments to ensure that when scholarship recipients graduate, they get automatic employment.
We must congratulate Buhari for his positive attitude towards teachers in general. Last year it had approved the extension of the retirement age of teachers from 60 to 65 or 40 years of service to 35. However, beautiful as these gestures are, they are not enough to change the fortunes of our educational system.
In January 2018, Minister Adamu had promised that the Federal Government would declare a “state of emergency” in education. That promise was never kept. We had looked forward to it and hoped it would provide the platform for a comprehensive reform of our educational system.
We were hoping that federal, state, and local governments, as well as private educators, would sit together and devise a new roadmap for education. Adamu did not explain why the idea failed. Additionally, in July this year, Buhari had promised to increase the federal education vote by 50 percent and ensure that by 2025 it would have risen to 100 percent.
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