Kwara To Enroll Out-of-School Children

 

Kwara To Enroll Out-of-School Children

The Kwara State government has concluded arrangements to enroll out-of-school children in schools across the state.

The State’s Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajiya Sa’adatu Modibbo Kawu, who made disclosure, said this was necessary in order to secure the future of the children.

The commissioner in Ilorin, the state capital said the state government will not leave any stone unturned in its efforts to remove children of school age from streets and reduce the number of out-of-school children to the minimum.

Modibbo-Kawu explained that the ‘Kwara Learn Programme’ has been introduced to turn around teaching and learning in public schools and make it attractive.

The commisssioner noted that parents in communities identified with large number of out-of-school children will be carried along in designing method of education that will suit the needs of their children and wards.

She added that the state government has renovated over 600 schools across the state to ensure a conducive teaching and learning environment.