President Tinubu Launches National Education Data System

President Bola Tinubu

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu launched a national education data system to improve learning standards, encourage skill development, and ensure the academic security of the country's youth, with the goal of revolutionizing Nigeria's education system.

Ajuri Ngelale, Special Advisor to the President, announced the launch of DOTS, a comprehensive effort that includes data repositories, after-school education for children, teacher preparation, and skill development and acquisition.

Planning requires coordinated, genuine, and verified data on every facet of the Nigerian education system, which is currently lacking. As a result, the President has given his approval for the following to be thoroughly surveyed:

1) Data Repository

a) All schools in Nigeria, from primary to tertiary level, their conditions and live- in facilities, proximity to one another, educational infrastructure, etc.

(b) All teachers in Nigeria, their qualifications, training support received, etc.

(c) All pupils and students in primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions, gender, exam grades, etc.

The federal and state interventions for the overall support and training of teachers will be guided by the information provided. Additionally, based on daily monitoring and year-by-year reporting, it will offer data on the gender ratio (boys and girls), their unique learning needs, and who is enrolled in school or has dropped out.

The Federal Ministry of Education, state governor offices, and local government chairperson offices will all have a dedicated portal/dashboard where this information will be hosted and distributed for real-time monitoring by the federal, state, and local governments.

(2) Out-of-school children's education and training

With the help of this new data-tracking architecture, the government will be able to monitor student achievement and develop a clear data-driven system for interventions, particularly with regard to out-of-school youth, girls, and individuals with particular learning difficulties, among other groups.

(3) Teachers' development and support

Through the operations of four of its agencies, the Federal Ministry of Education is already carrying out the government's policy. There are almost two million beneficiaries as of right now. Children who are not enrolled in school will receive even better instruction and training thanks to the system-wide strategy.

(4) Skill development and acquisition for all levels

The President has also authorized the National Skills Framework in his resolute attempt to increase skill variety in the education sector in order to adequately equip Nigerian students with the necessary information, skills, and values to become productive and useful members of society. The framework is made to offer the right knowledge and abilities at every educational level, enabling generations of Nigerians to be empowered and equipped with the skills needed to meet the changing demands of the 21st-century global economy.

With students gaining specific skill sets in addition to broad information, this framework should help with skill gaps, concerns about the quality of education, and unemployment.

Under President Bola Tinubu's Renewed Hope agenda, it is anticipated that these programs, when completely implemented, will be successful in resetting learning and linking the “DOTS” for a major improvement of Nigeria's overall education system.