The executive secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, has tasked teachers and administrators of smart schools to embrace attitudinal change.
Bobboyi stated this in Kano at the flag-off of intensive training for teachers of smart schools organised by UBEC in collaboration with the National Teachers Institute (NTI).
He said the attitudinal change was especially necessary in smart schools across the country, where the federal government had invested heavily to ensure that modern educational technologies, which are widely used around the world, are accessible to learners in Nigeria at the basic education level, bringing Nigerian learners in line with their international counterparts.
The director general of the NTI, Prof Musa Garba Maitafsir, emphasised the importance of training teachers on attitudinal change and expressed confidence in the institution’s ability to train teachers across the country.
Maitafsir further assured the Executive Secretary of UBEC of NTI’s readiness to train additional teachers.
The national coordinator of the UBEC Digital Resource Centre, Prof Bashir Galadanci, outlined the goals of the smart schools initiative and stressed the need for attitudinal change among all administrators and teachers to ensure its success.
He emphasised the efforts and commitment demonstrated by the Commission under the leadership of Dr Hamid Bobboyi to establish these schools, which aim to advance the overall development of the education sector.
