No fewer that 10,000 teachers from rural communities in Nigerian will benefit from the planned Global Partnership for Education Project of the World Bank to enhance teaching skills in rural areas.
This was contained in the World Bank Group Nigeria Country Partnership Strategy 2014-2017 document launched on Wednesday in Abuja.
According to the bank, the project will adopt a result-based approach of state-based education project done in three states at pilot scheme to increase the number of qualified teachers in rural areas.
The document said: “The planned Global Partnership for Education project will promote a result-based approach in nine states in the North in close coordination with the Department for International Development, USAID and UNICEF.
“All already have existing interventions in the areas.”
It added that the project would also ensure a regular system of state level standardised assessments and improve quality and relevance of technical and vocational education.
Accordin g to the document, education is key for Nigeria’s economic growth and poverty reduction.
It added that poverty had been consistently found to be the dominant factor that prevented many children to start school on time or even set their feet in school.
The document said further: “About one in every three of primary school age children does not have access to primary education. Even after completing primary school, many students are still not able to read.
“About 10 per cent cannot add numbers at the end of primary school. Most of them are concentrated in the North, rural areas and poor households.”
It added that at the national level, 60 per cent and 44 per cent of students after completing grade four and six respectively could not read a complete sentence.
It commended the Federal Government’s current institutional reform in the education sector, which would help to improve education access, quality and equity and national awareness to improve education service delivery.
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