UNICEF Laments 114 pupils per class in Katsina primary schools
United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
is to partner with Katsina State towards reduction
of the average rate of 114 pupils per class in the
state.
Speaking during the presentation of the state
Annual School Census, 2015-2016 Report, to critical
stakeholders in the education sector at the state
Education Resource Centre (ERC), the Chief of
UNICEF Field Office in Katsina, Padmavathi Yedla,
advised the present administration to maximize all
opportunities to boost the education sector.
Represented by her education specialist, Muntaka
Mukhtar Mohammed, the UNICEF zonal chief added
that the state was facing low girl child enrolment,
inadequate sources of water for sanitation and
hygiene in schools and negligible number of
female teachers in rural communities among
others.
The annual school census shows 154 pupils per
teacher in the local government council with the
highest ratio while the council with the lowest ratio
posted 44 pupils per teacher.
On male – female teacher ratio, the census
revealed that in Katsina Local Government Council
where over 60 per cent of its teachers were
female, the area had almost equal number of male
and female pupils’ enrolment unlike other parts of
the state.
UNICEF, Yedla assured, would also assist the state
in provision of bore holes in hundreds of schools
across Katsina, pointing out that 64 per cent of
primary schools and 19 per cent of secondary
schools in the state had no access to water supply.
Responding, the State Commissioner for Education
for Education, Prof. Halimatu Sa’adiyya Idris, said
the dissemination of the annual school census
report is in line with the present administration’s
change agenda and the priority given to education
sector by Governor Aminu Bello Masari
administration.
Idris, who was represented by Director of Quality
Assurance in the ministry, Alhaji Umar Abdullahi,
pledged the commitment of the government to
continue to partner with UNICEF and other
development partners to overcome the challenges
bedeviling the education sector in the state.
“The objective of the presentation, among other
things, is to disseminate the census conducted in
this academic session to all the education
stakeholders with a view to serving as a source of
reliable education data for future education
planning and statistical purposes,” she said.
is to partner with Katsina State towards reduction
of the average rate of 114 pupils per class in the
state.
Speaking during the presentation of the state
Annual School Census, 2015-2016 Report, to critical
stakeholders in the education sector at the state
Education Resource Centre (ERC), the Chief of
UNICEF Field Office in Katsina, Padmavathi Yedla,
advised the present administration to maximize all
opportunities to boost the education sector.
Represented by her education specialist, Muntaka
Mukhtar Mohammed, the UNICEF zonal chief added
that the state was facing low girl child enrolment,
inadequate sources of water for sanitation and
hygiene in schools and negligible number of
female teachers in rural communities among
others.
The annual school census shows 154 pupils per
teacher in the local government council with the
highest ratio while the council with the lowest ratio
posted 44 pupils per teacher.
On male – female teacher ratio, the census
revealed that in Katsina Local Government Council
where over 60 per cent of its teachers were
female, the area had almost equal number of male
and female pupils’ enrolment unlike other parts of
the state.
UNICEF, Yedla assured, would also assist the state
in provision of bore holes in hundreds of schools
across Katsina, pointing out that 64 per cent of
primary schools and 19 per cent of secondary
schools in the state had no access to water supply.
Responding, the State Commissioner for Education
for Education, Prof. Halimatu Sa’adiyya Idris, said
the dissemination of the annual school census
report is in line with the present administration’s
change agenda and the priority given to education
sector by Governor Aminu Bello Masari
administration.
Idris, who was represented by Director of Quality
Assurance in the ministry, Alhaji Umar Abdullahi,
pledged the commitment of the government to
continue to partner with UNICEF and other
development partners to overcome the challenges
bedeviling the education sector in the state.
“The objective of the presentation, among other
things, is to disseminate the census conducted in
this academic session to all the education
stakeholders with a view to serving as a source of
reliable education data for future education
planning and statistical purposes,” she said.
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