The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has reminded Education Secretaries of Local Government Councils that the strength of the country’s educational system, and the development of the nation at large, rests on the quality of primary education.
According to the commission’s executive secretary, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, the role of the education secretaries in basic education implementation is too crucial to be taken for granted, hence the need for them to pay adequate attention to training, while asking for explanations on what they do not understand.
Dr. Hamid Bobboyi stated this at the opening of the training and sensitisation workshop for 112 education secretaries from the Local Governments in North East zone on 2023/2024 Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programme, at Chartwell Hotel in Bauchi Tuesday.
Represented by UBEC’s zonal director, Alh Abdullahi Shehu Jarma, he assured them of the commission’s continued support in improving their knowledge and skills in educational management.
Bobboyi told the education secretaries, “As professional leaders to headmasters and teachers, you are to ensure that whatever is required for schools under them to perform effectively are provided. With these responsibilities on their shoulders, they deserve to get the professional support they need from the State Universal Basic Education Boards and the Universal Basic Education Commission”.
The executive secretary stressed the need for strengthening transparency and accountability in fund management to ensure that funds are utilized for the purpose they are disbursed, and expressed confidence that more responsibilities will be devolved to education secretaries.
The executive chairman of SUBEB, Bauchi, Adamu Mohammed Duguri, said in a goodwill message that the training is aimed at enhancing the capacities of education secretaries as education managers at the grassroots and in line with the UBE operational guideline towards effective implementation of the 2023/2024 Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programme.
