Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has
called for the decentralization of the nation’s education system to
reverse the declining fortunes of the sector.
Speaking at the 16th Annual Conference
of the African Council for Communication Education (ACCE) hosted by the
Department of Mass Communication of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka,
Abubakar said federal schools should be handed over to states where they
are located.
He said the budgetary resources hitherto expended on them should then been transferred to those state governments a statement from his media office said.
The former vice president said the over centralization of education has killed creativity and hampered scholarship in the country insisting that an important solution to reversing the backward trend.
He said: “We cannot significantly improve education in this country if we continue with the current overly centralized system with suffocating federal control. The federal government should focus on setting up regulatory standards and enforcing those standards.”
Atiku added that “we must also diversify our curriculum and educational programmes. The current one-size-fits-all approach will not help us.”
He said the budgetary resources hitherto expended on them should then been transferred to those state governments a statement from his media office said.
The former vice president said the over centralization of education has killed creativity and hampered scholarship in the country insisting that an important solution to reversing the backward trend.
He said: “We cannot significantly improve education in this country if we continue with the current overly centralized system with suffocating federal control. The federal government should focus on setting up regulatory standards and enforcing those standards.”
Atiku added that “we must also diversify our curriculum and educational programmes. The current one-size-fits-all approach will not help us.”
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