A former Commissioner of Science and Technology in Zamfara state, Ahmad Abubakar Maradun has advocated for establishment of state council on education.
He stated that if states in Nigerian can have a platform like council on education to discuss problems related to education of their respective localities, challenges of education at the level of states can be minimized.
Maradun who spoke exclusively to Thunder Blowers on Thursday insisted that the way states meet at the national level to discuss the crises affecting education through the National Council on Education in, states need to also have their councils where issues affecting education can be discussed.
“If there is a state council on education, all stakeholders serving and retired can have the opportunity to seat at a round table and come up with state policies regulating their educational crises”.
“In the state council we will have retired educationists and those in active service and when they have platform to discuss issues related to education, states can have better option to implement policies that are capable of getting educational crises addressed”.
He said when he was a Commissioner of Science and Technology, he wanted the former administration of Yari to champion that initiative but could not due to time limit but noted that even now, it is not late if Governor Matawalle can constitute the Zamfara state council on education.
He also advised the Governor to see to the possibility of releasing special allocation of fund for schools inspection so that the quality assurance board can be able to be visiting schools and monitor the quality of teaching and learning.
