Nasiru Yusuf Ibrahim
Bayero University Kano has indicated its readiness to work with Kano State Government in solving the education crisis facing the state.
KANO FOCUS reports that the Vice Chancellor of the University Professor Sagir Adamu Abbas gave the assurance on Tuesday when he led a team of the University management that at a courtesy visit to the state commisioner of education Alhaji Umar Haruna Doguwa in his office.
Prof. Sagir Adamu Maintained that for education crisis to be solved in Kano, something positive had to be done, noting that one of such step taken by the government was the recent declaration of state of emegency on education.
The Vice Chancellor hinted that in getting to the root of the problems of education in Kano, there is need for the government in power to find out the real picture of the education crisis at hand.
” If you can take your time to conduct research with a view to finding out the real.problem.of education in Kano, the solution is going to be beyond your time.
“So something need to be done. We are highly concerned when we go to do admission, even though Kano is having the largest number of students in Bayero University but during every admission, we are not taking the number we are expected to take because of lack of qualification,” he decried.
Professor Abbas further explained that the only way out of these educational challenges is to conduct what he called a holistic research on education to find out the problem, assuring that the University would remained willing to provide every support to that regard.
He disclosed that there were so many ways the University could assist the state apart from conducting research to get to the real problem.
“Bayero University also has the capacity to provide extensive training to teachers in groups and equip them with what they require to start facing the challenges of education in Kano.” he said.
Prof. Sagir Adamu however attributed the increase cases of Daba, Drugs adiction and other social vises in Kano to the lack of quality education that had characterized the state for quite period of time.
In his response, Kano State Commissioner of education Alhaji Umar Haruna Doguwa described the visit as timely considering the new policies and programmes put in place by the administration to revive the education sector.
“It is obvious, the present administration has inherited the state education sector in a stage of total dilapidation and decay of schools infrastructures and lack of instructional materials resulting to non conducive learning environment.
“We have produced a documentary programme portraying total neglect and decay of the education sector meaning that we have a lot to do in order to address all the challenges of the education sector. This government is now trying to see how it can address those problems inherited on education,” he said.
He assured the management team that the administration would be fully determine to work with University in finding lasting solutions to those challenges by setting a team of researchers that would assist in tackling the situation.
Doguwa asserted that the administration focuses on three basic components aimed at improving the education sector which bordered around access, quality and infrastructural development in schools.
Haruna Doguwa revealed that so many things had been done by the administration since its inception to improve education in the state which include the provision of instructional materials to schools, training of teachers, timely payment of NECO/NBAIS/NABTEB registration fees, recruitment of over 5600 teachers, construction and renovation of schools, repairing of 70 Girl Child Buses, payment of qualifying examination and distribution of free JAMB forms to Kano students among others.
“So, as we really thank and appreciate Bayero University Kano for coming to our aid in finding way forward to our educational crisis, our doors will remain opened at all times for advice and necessary guidance so that we can move the education sector forward ” Doguwa stated.