Nigerian Govt unveils new education policy to address out-of-school crisis

The Federal Government has launched a caller National Policy connected Alternative Learning Pathways to grow entree to acquisition for out-of-school children, youths and adults crossed the country.

The Director of Literacy and Development, National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, NMEC, Dr John Edeh, disclosed this successful Abuja.

Edeh, who besides oversees the commission, said the policy, precocious unveiled by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, was designed to adjacent long-standing gaps wrong Nigeria’s non-formal acquisition system.

He explained that the argumentation focuses connected mainstreaming learners, improving certification processes and creating flexible pathways that let beneficiaries to modulation easy into higher acquisition oregon vocational opportunities.

According to him, the argumentation compresses learning duration, enabling individuals who missed ceremonial schooling to implicit equivalent acquisition wrong 3 to 4 years alternatively of spending implicit a decennary successful accepted schoolhouse settings.

He described the inaugural arsenic a large betterment susceptible of importantly reducing the country’s ample colonisation of out-of-school youths portion besides addressing unemployment, insecurity, banditry and different societal challenges linked to illiteracy.

“The argumentation is simply addressing immoderate of th...