#WhatWillBuhariDoDifferent? EDUCATION * Guaranteeing Free Education, We will: • Triple education spending over next 10 years, from the current 8.5% to 24.5%. • Commit to the eventual eradication of illiteracy by guaranteeing and enforcing nine (9) years of compulsory basic education to every Nigerian child, as the minimum level of formal education. This commitment includes, Tsangaya, Nomadic and other special education. • Reinvigorate technical and vocational education nationwide by giving adequate material support to schools. This implies the review of the 9-3-4 system. • Introduce a National core curriculum for all public schools, setting out the minimum standards. • Prioritize the improvement in quality and quantity of teachers and healthcare professionals with improved infrastructural facilities, enhanced working environment, better conditions of service and merit-based reward systems in recognition of their foundational and critical nation building responsibilities. Primary Education • Introduce free daily school meals for all primary school children • Decentralize management of primary schools to parents and communities. Secondary Schools • Undertake a major national programme of secondary school construction and repair funded through Public Private Partnerships. Tax incentives will be provided to businesses who participate in this programme. • Phase-in a free school meals programme after it has been established in primary schools. • Raise the transition rate from primary to secondary schools to at least 75% by 2019 • Restore teaching of Nigerian languages in secondary schools • Establish six centres of excellence to address the needs of special education • Phase-in the provision of communal internet-ready desktops at all secondary schools in the nation by 2019. Tertiary • Launch a programme for the redevelopment of teacher training colleges. • Establish no less than 2 Local Technology Institutes (LTIs) in every state in the nation. • Ensure the full optimization of the capacity of existing technical, vocational centres and tertiary institutions, and expand where necessary or establish new ones. • Focus the new (LTIs) on providing free training courses to our youth and unemployed in the basic skills necessary to sign up to the infrastructure public works programmes that we are proposing. • Establish a standing committee of pertinent government ministries and agencies and representatives of the private sector in order to shape educational curricula to our needs and realities of the global economy. • Embark on vocational training, entrepreneurial and skills acquisition schemes for graduates along with the creation of a Small Business Loans Guarantee Scheme to create at least 1 million new jobs every year, for the foreseeable future. • Ensure a greater proportion of expenditure on university education is devoted to Science and Technology with more spaces allocated to science and technology-oriented courses. • Emphasize and encourage closer relationship between town and gown. Universities to relate with local industries and focus research on advancing and promoting local technology. #FeBuhari14 ...Vote Change!
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:36:43 +0000
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