Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Adamu, laments how the Northern Region caused its own educational backwardness.
He spoke in Abuja at the launch of a book written in his honor and the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) Book 1 series for universities.
Adamu Adamu, the minister of education, has bemoaned the fact that residents of the region are to blame for the current educational backwardness in the North.
He spoke in Abuja at the launch of a book written in his honor and the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) Book 1 series for universities.
The North is in a state of self-imposed educational adversity, he claimed, because Islam is the region’s main concern and Islam is the biggest propagator of knowledge.
Even though Muslim women founded the first two universities in the world, according to Adamu, “here, people are using Islam to keep women at home.” It seems to me to make no sense.
Adamu praised the National Universities Commission for its determination to see that additional private universities are established in Nigeria.
He claimed that recent growth in the number of these institutions in northern Nigeria was evidence that the commission’s efforts were having an impact.
He expressed happiness that many of the 37 new private institutions that the Federal Executive Council approved on Monday were located in the North, according to Daily Trust.
“We must continue to ensure that graduates from Nigerian universities are equipped with needed skills, knowledge, and expertise in order to succeed in the 21st century,” he stated.
Adamu called for the full implementation of CCMAS and cited its introduction in 17 disciplines as one of the NUC’s biggest achievements in ensuring that Nigerian universities meet current international standards.
In order to ensure that the changes made to the teaching profession produce the desired results, he also proposed for the creation of the Federal Teachers Service Commission.
According to Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, executive secretary of the NUC, there are 148 private universities in the nation.
Rasheed stated, “Of the 148 private universities in Nigeria, 87, or 60%, were founded when Adamu Adamu served as Minister of Education.
The CCMAS is an extremely significant contribution to the repositioning of the Nigerian educational system, according to Prof. Attahiru Jega, a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
