President Bola Tinubu is leading the effort to create a National Education Data System (NEDS) as part of his plan to improve Nigeria’s education sector.
Presidential spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale explained that the goal of this system is to modernize how educational data is managed, ensuring that accurate, easily accessible, and up-to-date information is available to support decision-making and interventions.
Ngelale added that the NEDS will act as a central database for information on different aspects of the education sector, such as school facilities, teacher backgrounds, and student demographics.
”There will be a dedicated portal/dashboard in the Federal Ministry of Education, offices of state governors, and local government chairpersons, which will host and disseminate this information for the federal government, states, and local governments to monitor in real time.
”This new data tracking architecture will enable the government to track the progress of students, thus having a clear data-driven mechanism for interventions, especially concerning out-of-school children, girls, and those with specific learning disabilities, among others,” the statement added.
Ngelale added: ”In his determined effort to enhance skill diversity in the education sector in order to effectively equip Nigerian students with the requisite skills, knowledge, and values to become functional and productive members of society, the President has also approved the National Skills Framework.
”The framework is designed to provide the appropriate skills for each level of education that will result in the empowering of generations of Nigerians with the required aptitude for the evolving needs of the global economy of the 21st century.
”This framework is expected to address skill gaps, quality of education, and unemployment concerns as students will acquire certain skill sets in addition to general knowledge.
”It is expected that once fully implemented, these programmes will succeed in resetting learning and connecting the ‘DOTS’ for significant improvement of the overall education system in Nigeria, in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu.”
