From Olanrewaju Lawal, Birnin Kebbi
Executive Chairman, Kebbi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Suleiman Khalid, has said primary and junior secondary schools enrolment in the state has hit over 850,000.
He stated this at a stakeholders meeting on the conduct of Kebbi State National Personnel Audit with Universal Basic Education Commission(UBEC) team from Abuja, in Birnin Kebbi.
“Our aims especially on the data of our staff, teaching and non teaching, pupils enrollment is aggravating by gender, age, class, school, town, LGAs, both Primary and JSS, public and private schools. At present,a total of 857,185 pupils are currently enroll in basic institutions in the state. Out of these, 65 per cent are in public, that is 534,584 and 35 per cent of them are in private schools and that is 302,601 pupils.
“If you look at them, it is more than one-third of them are taken by these private schools. These pupils are enrolled in 2,320 private primary schools and 426 via private and public secondary schools. In addition, we have a total of 5,343 non-formal learning centres enrolling 350,000 learners, they were thought by 3,912 facilitators. I am referring to learners in LGEAs under the BESDA programmes and the 15,900 facilitators,” he said.
Khalid said all the information needed on the level of the completion of the projects done, or the ongoing by the SUBEB in the state, were currently on their website,stressing that private schools which have been a good partner in providing quality education in the state with enrollment of 35 percentage of pupils, have employed over 4,141 personnel in the state. He said the motive behind the national personnel auditing was to provide answers to series of questions on how to move the education sector forward in the state and Nigeria in areas of teaching, learning environment as well as enrollment of girls child.