FG vows to tackle decay in education sector – Tribune
November 24, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
The Federal Government, on Monday, blamed the decay in the education sector on long years of neglect and mismanagement of the nation’s scarce resources, promising to tackle the issues headlong.
This is coming just as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said the union was not opposed to the conduct of the new Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Examination (JAMB), but called on the Federal Government to amend the relevant laws that would give legal support to the conduct of the UTME.
The Minister of State for Education, Hajiya Aishatu Dukku, who spoke in Abuja on Monday at the joint symposium for undergraduates by the Federal Ministry of Education and JAMB on the new UTME, said the government had since embarked on the “turn-around strategies that will help restore the lost glory of the Nigerian education system.”
