By Joyce Remi- Babayeju
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), yesterday has disclosed that there are plans to upgrade the FCT College of Education, Zuba to University of Education.
The Secretary for FCT Education Secretariat, Malam Sani El-katuzu, revealed this at the 2021 Media Luncheon, held at the FCT Education Resource Centre, in Abuja.
El-katuzu promised that the secretariat would do everything within the limit of resources available to ensure the actualisation of the establishment of the institution.
He also disclosed that the secretariat would ensure the commencement of academic activities and programme at the FCT University of Science and Technology (FUSTA).
According to him, the FCTA administration would establish FCT Polytechnic and adopt technology as a strong tool in the delivery of education services to the residents of the territory and for education administration.
Furthermore the secretary pledged to prioritize teacher’s welfare, improve their working conditions, and ensure that the security of students, teacher’s and assets are further strengthened with introduction of relevant technologies particularly for schools in vulnerable locations.
He assured that the secretariat would upgrade physical and educational facilities in all our schools and monitor closely the activities of private schools with a view to ensure compliance with existing regulations and standard.
El-katuzu also disclosed that the secretariat had concluded plans to ensure the use of Multimedia in the teaching and learning process through its expanded training programmes which lasted for five weeks with about 3500 evaluators, school heads, administrators and teachers across the six Area Councils.
He said that the Department of Quality Assurance has registered 147 schools in 2021, carried out issuance of ‘Batch 14’ Accreditation Certificate for 2020 and also carried out 2,993 Resumption visits to both private and public for school checklist and guidelines provided by the secretariat.
El-katuzu however decried lack of perimeter fence wall in some schools, encroachment on school lands by private developers and difficulties in acquiring lands for establishing new schools.
