By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) — The Federal Government has lauded the nation’s membership in Commonwealth, saying that it has been impacting positively on Nigeria’s Education sector.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, spoke at the commemoration of the 2017 Commonwealth Day celebration in Abuja, under ‘Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan Awards’.
He said that it promotes highest standards of intellectual achievement, technical and professional performances, Nigeria has attracted several scholarship sponsored by commonwealth.
“In December 2015, a total of thirty eight (38) postgraduate candidates (Masters and Doctorate) were nominated for the 2016/2017 Commonwealth Scholarship from Nigeria.
“(Also), in 2015/2016 academic session, the Commonwealth Commission awarded thirteen (13) postgraduates scholarships to qualified Nigerians for studies in UK Universities, while 2016/2017 academic session, sixteen (16) postgraduate scholarship offers were received from Commonwealth,” Adamu said.
Apart from the Commonwealth Scholarship awards, the Minister explained that the Pan-commonwealth Commonwealth consultation on the Commonwealth Education Policy framework, which was held in Kenya in May 2016, had also assisted Nigeria in designing its strategic education plan to focus on skills relevant for 21st century.
“The Key focus of the consultation was to assist scaling up investment in education and ensuring that education delivery focuses on equity, lifelong learning, workforce planning and relevance to the skills and jobs of the 21st century,” he said.
The Commonwealth is an association of 52 countries around the world that support each other, and share experiences in various fields, to promote and sustain democracy,good governance and development of all member countries.
It has a population of about 2.4 billion people, which constitutes nearly a third of the world’s largest population, and are found mostly in Africa, Asia, the North America, the Caribbean, the Europe, and the South Pacific.
The theme for this year’s celebration is a ‘Peace Building Commonwelath’, which affirms the Commonwealth charter principles that international peace and security, sustainable economic growth and development and and rule of law essential to the progress and prosperity of all.
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