The Kano State Ministry of Education has organized a five-day Master Trainers’ Workshop as part of preparations for a comprehensive survey aimed at determining the number of out-of-school children across the state.
According to a statement issued on Sunday by Musbahu Aminu Yakasai, the Drector Public Enlightenment
at the Ministry, the training is a key step in the implementation of the mandate given to a committee inaugurated in August 2025 to conduct the survey.
The committee is chaired by the Technical Advisor to the Governor on Education Reforms, Alhaji Haladu Muhammad.
Declaring the training open at the center for out-of-school children in the Commuhity Educational Resource Center (CERC), the Honourable Commissioner for Education, Gwani Dr. Ali Haruna Abubakar Makoda, reiterated the commitment of the Kano State Government to strengthening the education sector and addressing the challenge of out-of-school children in the state.
He emphasized that reliable data is essential for effective planning and policy formulation, noting that the survey will provide the government with accurate information required to design targeted interventions that will bring more children back to school.
Dr. Makoda urged participants to take the training seriously, explaining that they are expected to serve as Master Trainers who will in turn train enumerators that will conduct the field exercise across the state.
In his remarks, the Chairman of the Committee and Technical Advisor to the Governor on Education Reforms, Alhaji Haladu Muhammad, highlighted the importance of the survey in supporting ongoing education reforms in Kano State.
He explained that the exercise will generate credible data that will guide government decisions and help develop strategies to reduce the number of out-of-school children.
Also speaking, the Director of Planning, Research and Statistics of the Ministry of Education, Yusha’u Hamza Kafinchiri, stressed the technical importance of the training.
He noted that the quality of the survey will depend largely on the competence of the trainers and enumerators, urging participants to pay close attention to the methodology and procedures required for accurate data collection.
Participants at the workshop include Education Management Information System (EMIS) officers and Monitoring and Evaluation officers drawn from relevant education agencies, as well as representatives from the Kano State Bureau of Statistics, Civil Society Organisations, and other key stakeholders.
At the end of the training, the participants will be deployed to train enumerators who will subsequently conduct the field survey across Kano State.
