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It’ll take Nigeria 73yrs to attain Universal Primary Education –Report
Nigeria and some Economic Community of West African (ECOWAS) states will witness real growth in education in 2089, 73 years from today, so says a UNESCO agency the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) 2016 education assessment report.
The GEM’s report published in the UNESCO’s latest journal on Africa, made available Wednesday, said Nigeria’s position on the current trends of global education growth rating makes it impossible to achieve universal primary education earlier than 2070 and 2089.
The years will also cover growth in the country’s universal lower secondary education and its universal upper secondary education, which other developing countries are targeting to achieve between 2030 and 2050.
The same slow pace in growth is facing a number of ECOWAS countries, with a few, including Niger and Burkina Faso coming last.
Ghana has a little edge over Nigeria by 1.2 point, while Nigeria leads other 13 other countries in the assessment report, though with a promising evidence of possible improvement in the next 10 years.
According to the report: “Current trends in universal primary education in sub-Saharan Africa will be achieved between 2080; including universal lower secondary completion in 2089; and universal upper secondary completion in 2099. This would leave the region 70 years late for the 2030 SDG deadline.”
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On its comment, UNESCO said that the statistics should urge countries to propel progress towards all global goals outlined in the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development( SDGs), adding that education needs a major transformation to fulfill that potential and meet the current challenges facing humanity and the planet.
However, government officials said the report did not consider many inputs that past and present administrations had made towards the growth of education in Nigeria.
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