Nigeria, Japan Partner To Boost STEM, Vocational Education

Nigeria has entered a caller signifier of acquisition practice with Japan pursuing the signing of a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) betwixt the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The concern aims to fortify Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) arsenic good arsenic pre-vocational acquisition successful exemplary schools crossed the country.

The signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) betwixt UBEC and JICA connected Smart Education took spot successful Abuja recently.

Speaking during the ceremony, the Executive Secretary of UBEC, Aisha Garba, described the concern arsenic a reaffirmation of a shared committedness betwixt Nigeria and Japan to the aboriginal of acquisition and to the children whose lives volition beryllium straight impacted by this initiative.

“We are present not conscionable to motion documents, but to reaffirm a shared committedness betwixt our 2 countries, our institutions, and our radical to the aboriginal of education. This task is astir creating spaces wherever young minds tin thrive successful science, technology, mathematics, and pre-vocational education.”

The task volition beryllium implemented successful selected exemplary schools crossed Nasarawa, Benue, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

It is expected to supply improved learning environments done caller subject laboratories, ICT rooms, vocational workshops, and gender-sensitive sanitation facilities.

Under the project, 5 exemplary schools volition beryllium upgraded to service arsenic determination learning hubs, equipping students with hands-on acquisition successful computing, location economics, and method skills, successful enactment with the nationalist curriculum.

In his remarks, JICA’s Country Representative successful Nigeria, Mr. Ishigame Keiji, commended UBEC and the Federal Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning for their enactment and collaboration, noting that the caller inaugural reflects Japan’s continued committedness to improving learning outcomes successful Nigeria.

“The superior nonsubjective of this task is to heighten the acquisition situation by improving schoolhouse facilities and instrumentality indispensable for STEM and vocational education. It besides aims to fortify enactment systems for girls’ continuous learning successful selected exemplary schools.”

He explained that the project’s imaginativeness extends beyond infrastructure, aiming to presumption the exemplary schools arsenic determination hubs for acquisition excellence.

“Through these efforts, we anticipation to lend to the improvement of concern quality resources captious for Nigeria’s future. In the acquisition sector, JICA remains committed to tackling the planetary situation of learning poorness by supporting initiatives that amended learning outcomes.”