The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has successfully trained 137 Education Secretaries from Local Government Universal Basic Education Authorities in the Southwest region of Nigeria.
This initiative emphasises the critical role of quality primary education in strengthening the country’s educational system.
UBEC’s Executive Secretary, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, said the roles of secretaries in basic education implementation are too crucial to be taken for granted, hence the need to pay adequate attention to training.
Bobboyi spoke at the training which took place during the 2023/2024 Teacher Professional Development (TPD) session held in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
The Executive Secretary, who was represented by the Zonal Assistant Director, Mr. Olusegun Akere, gave assurances of the commission’s continued support in improving the knowledge and skills of the education secretaries in educational management.
He noted that the education secretaries are the administrative and professional heads of the Local Government Education Authorities and are primarily expected to ensure that the primary schools in their domains are run efficiently.
Bobboyi stated: “They are to ensure that whatever is required for schools under them to perform effectively are provided. With these responsibilities on their shoulders, they deserve to get the professional support they need from the State Universal Basic Education Boards and the Universal Basic Education Commission, among others.
“Training them as regularly as possible assures that basic education delivery will perform above average in terms of learner performance. Apart from the supervisory and other administrative functions they perform, they also provide professional leadership to headteachers and teachers, as support officers, mentors, and coaches.”
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The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr Nureni Adeniran, in a goodwill message, disclosed that the training is aimed at enhancing the capacities of education secretaries as education managers at the grassroots, in line with the UBE operational guideline towards effective implementation of the 2023/2024 Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programme.
He assured education secretaries in the state of the continued support of the board, especially in training that will improve their knowledge and skills in educational management.
Adeniran stressed that education secretaries are the closest to the schools, who are the end receivers of the services of the Commission and the Board.
“The role of education secretaries in ensuring effective implementation of the UBE programme cannot be underestimated,” he said.
The Director of Teacher Development, UBEC, Mr. Aleshin Mayowa, noted that the training underscores the importance the Commission places on the relevance of the education secretaries in the implementation of the UBE programme.
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