Northern education backwardness self imposed – Adamu

By Funmilayo Adeyemi
The Minister of Training, Malam Adamu Adamu has the instructional backwardness of the Northern part of the country is self imposed.
Adamu who spoke on the public presentation of Core Curriculum Minimum Tutorial Requirements (CCMAS) E book 1 series for Nigerian universities and a e book in his honour, in Abuja on Tuesday.
Adamu said the embody of Islam need to now not pause folk of the region from attempting to make a decision up for schooling.
The Minister said right here is because Islam as a faith encourages learning and schooling even for girls.
Adamu said, “The north is in self-imposed instructional backwardness since the fervour of the North is Islam and Islam is the most realistic promulgator of files.
“In 859 AD, one Fatima Al-Fihri (sic), a Muslim woman established the fundamental college within the sector, on the time, the Italian universities, Oxford, Cambridge universities have now not began, the fundamental college is light present there, it’s far now in Morocco.
“And about 100 years after that one, any other college change into once established, the second college within the sector sooner than the colleges of Europe, in Cairo and excellent-making an are attempting love the fundamental one, this college change into once established by a Muslim woman, Fatimatu Zahara.
“So the fundamental two universities within the sector were established by Muslim ladies and right here folk are the utilization of Islam to preserve ladies at dwelling. I have confidence it would now not operate sense,” the minister said.
Talking on the unusual curriculum, the Minister said would equip graduates across universities with wanted talents, records and skills to achieve the twenty first century.
“We must continue to operate certain graduates from Nigeria universities are equipped with wanted talents, records and skills in exclaim to achieve the twenty first Century.
” We must persistently strive to toughen our tutorial programmes and learning with the fact of global glorious practices. The CCMAS e book series is geared in direction of achieving this honest, ” he said.
Adamu called for the corpulent implementation of the curriculum while asserting the launch of CCMAS in 17 disciplines change into once one the best step taken by the Nationwide Universities Price (NUC) to operate certain Nigerian universities meet fresh global calls for.
“The implementation of CCMAS requires dedication, hard work and willingness to embody swap by every one, on account of this reality it will be most valuable we embody coaching and equipping our academics with the most valuable talents and records to implement CMAS,”he said.
The minister furthermore said that the unusual schooling backwardness being witnessed within the northern part of the country change into once attributable to folk of the dwelling.
Adamu commended the NUC for its force in making sure the bobbing up of more deepest universities and said the commission’s effort change into once paying off with the institution of more of such institutions in Northern Nigeria in fresh events.
Adamu, on the different hand, expressed pleasure that out of the 37 unusual deepest universities permitted by the Federal Government Council on Monday, neat different of them would be found within the north.
He called for the institution of Federal Teachers Service Price, asserting such transfer would operate certain reforms assign in dispute within the teaching occupation yield desired outcomes.
” I are making an are attempting to hasten away one legacy in your arms (heads of schooling agencies and others), we wrote a letter and the President permitted the entirety, but there may perchance be one yet to achieve into fruition, that will operate schooling entirely varied
” It change into once now not too long ago I realised that we desire a Federal Teachers Service Price, so I are making an are attempting to hasten away this in your arms, in teach that every one those things permitted by Mr president, the lecturers will be ready to receive it, and schooling will launch as a lot as device the real brains,” Adamu said.
Additionally speaking, the Government Secretary of NUC, Prof. Rasheed Abubakar, commended the minister for his several achievements recorded under his scrutinize, in particular within the dwelling of universities pattern.
” As on the day prior to this morning, there were 111 deepest universities within the country, as of the day prior to this evening, the number had risen to 148 deepest universities within the country.
”That is, of the 148 deepest universities in Nigeria, 87 or 60 per cent came all the device by Adamu Adamu as Minister of Training, ” the NUC boss said.
Rasheed, who furthermore described CCMAS as a game changer in Nigerian universities, commended used NUC Government Secretary, Prof. Peter Okebukola, for his role in its pattern, describing him as chief architect of the curriculum.
Additionally speaking, used chairman of the Independent Nationwide Electoral Price (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, said the CCMAS change into once a appropriate step within the glorious direction.
“Here’s extremely most valuable contribution to the repositioning of the Nigerian schooling system.
” The unusual curriculum is absolute self belief a substantial worth addition to repositioning our schooling system and it may perchance be very excellent that this has took dispute under the unusual minister of schooling, Adamu Adamu,” he said.
Additionally, a used Minister of Training, Prof. Ruqqayattu Rufa’i, charged the trainees of the unusual curriculum to rob urged motion in taking the coaching to varied universities.
The tournament furthermore witnessed tributes to leisurely Prof. Idris Abdulkadir and Prof. Nimi Briggs, to boot to the disclosing of a e book in honour of the the minister titled: ‘Repositioning Nigerian Tutorial Blueprint; the Ministerial Footprints of Adamu Adamu.” (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)