Kano State Government has reiterated its commitment to strengthening collaboration with Partnership For Leaning For All in Nigeria (PLANE) to revive the state education sector.
The State Commissioner of Education, Dr. Ali Haruna Makoda, gave the assurance on Tuesday while receiving a team from the PLANE in Kano that paid him a courtesy visit to his office.
Dr. Ali Haruna noted that the intervention programs implemented by PLANE in Kano had contributed a lot to the present administration’s effort to ensure quality education in the state.
The Commissioner stressed that the Kano State Government under the leadership of Abba Kabir Yusuf will therefore continue to work closely with PLANE to ensure proper implementation of its new policies on education for the benefit of people in the state.
“We have seen the programs that you have been undertaking and all the support you are giving to more especially Kano State Ministry of Education. This is the support that you give to the entire people of Kano State.
“From your good report, you almost taught every aspect of education which is quite interesting and there is no doubt that PLANE is complementing the effort of this administration on education development, you are partners in progress,” acknowledged Dr. Makoda.
On the requests made by the team on other areas of support from the government site, Dr. Ali Makoda said his ministry will ensure that all demands tabled by the PLANE will be adequately attended to achieve better results.
“So, as we thank and appreciate your intervention programs on education in Kano, we are still urging PLANE to fully engage with the present administration in providing access to quality education to address out-of-school syndicate ” he stated.
Earlier, the state coordinator PLANE Umar Lawan said the team was at the Commissioner’s office to inform him of the numerous intervention programs in the education sector as executed in Kano by PLANE.
Umar Lawan explained that PLANE is a 7-year project funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in the UK and is divided into three windows to deliver more educational support to the affected states.
He revealed that in PLANE, there is window one that takes care of getting the system right by improving teaching and learning in schools while window two is given the task of addressing issues on education in an emergency.
He said: “We have window three that deals with the interface between the program and the community and it is interesting to note that window one which supports teaching and learning strengthening is operated in three states comprising Kano, Jigawa, and Kaduna.”
He explained that under the project, over 8000 primary school teachers were trained in Kano and the program was conducted with full collaboration of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB)
Other intervention programs according to the team leader, include coordination of book distribution and other learning materials at the classroom level across the 532 schools in Kano, supporting 35 school-based management committees that sensitized stakeholders on book care and maintenance among others.
Credit: Balarabe Abdullahi Kiru
