UBEC asks state boards to prioritise education quality assurance

The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has asked the State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBs) to give increased priority to quality assurance.

Hamid Bobboyi, the executive secretary of UBEC, spoke at a meeting with the commission and SUBEBs’ quality assurance officers.

“As professionals, you need no convincing that quality assurance is an important component of the teaching and learning process,” Bobboyi said.

“It ensures that school services consistently meet set standards; that content aligns with established educational standards and that the materials are relevant, appropriate, supportive and effective for the learners.

“The federal government doesn’t own any school. It is the states that have these schools and it is our responsibility to ensure that we work very closely with them to ensure that quality is assured in our schools.”

Bala Zakari, the deputy executive secretary (technical) of UBEC, urged staff of quality assurance departments to take their responsibilities seriously.

“We can only be sure that all the investment into basic education can only be realised if the work of quality assurance officers is quite effective,” Zakari said.

“Because when classrooms are built, furniture provided, textbooks provided and our teachers are professionally trained, we can ascertain the impact of this if you do your job well.

“I hope you’ll sit up to expectations and properly drive the process for which the commission in collaboration with SUBEBs will realise its own mandate of implementing basic education in the country.

“Our single mandate is to ensure that the Nigerian child receives quality basic education.”