Gombe State governor, Muhammadu Yahaya, has said his administration has injected new policies and systems into the education sector in order to move it forward.
According to him, Gombe State is also ready to key into all federal government’s programmes through partnership support and collaboration, for the benefit of all.
He stated this during the close of a conference on the review of National Policy on EMIS and its implementation guidelines, review of NEMIS Web and Mobile App, as well as the Online Data Capturing Tool for Tertiary Institutions and EMIS Data Visualization System developed by UNICEF.
The governor, represented by his deputy, Dr Manassah Daniel Jatau, said, “Being a concerned government that is jealous of developing Gombe, His Excellency, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, identified the importance of education in the society and based on the level of education he met on ground when he assumed office in May 2019, he had to declare a state of emergency on education and placed it as its second priority after health which comes first for obvious reasons.
“Following the declaration all stakeholders were brought on board. The traditional, religious, community leaders, artisans and other relevant affiliates are now collaborating with government for education at all levels,” he added.
He lauded the federal government’s drive to reposition the education sector through putting in place a reliable and accurate source of data.
He said, “The launch of the 4th National Conference on Education Management System (EMIS) which from available records is the first since the creation of Gombe State on the 1st October, 1996, by General Sani Abacha (GCFR) is really germane, apt, necessary and indeed inevitable.
“Basically, Annual School Census (ASC) which is the major source of data collection, analyses, report generation and dissemination for quality and efficient decision making by the relevant authority is to a large extent associated with the quality of data generated by EMiS.
“I am delighted to observe that the National Conference on EMIS is an annual event and rotated among the states of the federation . This will of course bring awareness, unity and understanding of the situations of education in the different states or environment that you may find yourselves. This will ensure that the services you rendered are need-based, and relevant to the communities.”
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