Nigeria: Institute scholarships to reposition higher education

The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has said that to improve the falling standard of education in the country, there is need for the nation to give generous and targeted scholarships to students, at all levels, and enhance teachers’ emolument.

The minister stated this, yesterday, in Abuja, while delivering a keynote address during a two-day round-table on legislative agenda for tertiary education in Nigeria.

Adamu said that the best and most resilient among the education systems in the world were those that put the greatest emphasis on recruitment and development of quality teachers.

The federal government, he said, placed premium on teacher education and training because of its belief that no nation can rise above the quality of its teachers.

«This can be achieved by instituting and giving generous and targeted scholarships to students of education at all levels,» he added. He said that if the step was taken, the education sector would attract the best, instead of having to take the worst leftovers.