Bayero University Kano has indicated its readiness to work with the Kano State Government in solving the education crisis facing the state.
The Vice Chancellor of the University Professor Sagir Adamu Abbas gave the assurance when he led a team on a courtesy visit to the state commissioner of education Alhaji Umar Haruna Doguwa in his office.
Professor Sagir Adamu Maintained that for the education crisis to be solved in Kano, something positive had to be done, noting that one such step taken by the government was the recent declaration of a state of emergency on education.
The Vice-Chancellor hinted that in getting to the root of the problems of education in Kano, there is need for the government in power to find out the real picture of the education crisis at hand.
“So something needs to be done. We are highly concerned when we go to do admission, even though Kano is having the largest number of students in Bayero University but during every admission, we are not taking the number we are expected to take because of lack of qualification “ .
Professor Abbas further explained that the only way out of these educational challenges is to conduct what he called a holistic research on education to find out the problem, assuring that the University would remained willing to provide every support to that regard.
Prof. Sagir Adamu however attributed the increase cases of thuggery , drugs and other societal vises in Kano to the lack of quality education that had characterized the state.
In his remarks, the Kano State Commissioner for education Alhaji Umar Haruna Doguwa described the visit as timely, considering the new policies and programmes put in place by the administration to revive the education sector.
“ It is obvious, the present administration has inherited the state education sector in a stage of total dilapidation and decay of schools infrastructures and lack of instructional materials resulting to non conducive learning environment”
He assured the management team that the administration would be fully determined to work with the University in finding lasting solutions to those challenges, by setting a team of researchers that would assist in tackling the situation.
Doguwa asserted that the administration focused on three basic components aimed at improving the education sector which bordered around access, quality and infrastructures development in schools.
The commissioner revealed that the administration has put modalities to improve education including provision of instructional materials to schools, training of teachers, timely payment of NECO/NBAIS/NABTEB registration fees, recruitment of over 5600 teachers, construction and renovation of schools, repairing of 70 Girl Child Buses, payment of qualifying examination and distribution of free JAMB forms to students among others.
Khadijah Aliyu
