The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has trained 137 Education Secretaries of Local Government Universal Basic Education Authorities in the Southwest, noting that the strength and development of the country’s educational system, rests on the quality of primary education.
Hamid Bobboyi, the Commission’s Executive Secretary speaking during the training session, said roles of the secretaries in basic education implementation are too crucial to be taken for grants.
The Commission trained education secretaries within the South-west region, on the 2023/2024 Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programme in Ibadan between November 18-22, 2024.
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Represented by UBEC’s zonal assistant director, Olusegun Akere, he said, the role of education secretaries in basic education implementation is too crucial to be taken for granted, hence the need for them to pay adequate attention to training.
Bobboyi assured them of the Commission’s continued support in improving their knowledge and skills in educational management, noting that the trainees are the administrative and professional Heads of the Local Government Education Authorities and are primarily expected to ensure that the primary schools in their domains are run efficiently.
“They are to ensure that whatever is required for schools under them to perform effectively are provided. With these responsibilities on their shoulders, they deserve to get the professional support they need from the State Universal Basic Education Boards and the Universal Basic Education Commission, among others.”
“Training them as regularly as possible assures that basic education delivery will perform above average in terms of learner performance. Apart from the supervisory and other administrative functions they perform, they also provide professional leadership to Headteachers and teachers, as support officers, mentors, and coaches,” he said.
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