National Council on Education Commends Tinubu for Exempting Varsities from IPPIS

Funmi Ogundare 

The National Council on Education (NCE) has commended President Bola Tinubu for exempting the tertiary institutions from the Integrated Payment and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and granting them autonomy to recruit their own staff, for which the ministry would develop guidelines to guard against the abuses.

This was contained in a statement issued at the end of its 67th meeting in Lagos, themed, ‘Addressing the Challenges of Policy Implementation: A Panacea for the Achievement of Education 2030 Agenda’.

The council emphasised the importance of focusing on foundational education, reiterating its commitment to deal with the embarrassing issue of out-of-school children and the Almajiris in the country.

The NCE also approved some major policy decisions that would guide the implementation of the education sector in the next year, including the draft roadmap for the Implementation of Quality Early Childhood Care Development and Education (ECCDE), the implementation of the Education for Renewed Hope: A Roadmap for the Nigerian Education Sector (2024 – 2027), designed to address the challenges of education, including disabilities as well as exempting prison inmates from post-UTME and their obtainable scores be adjusted to 100 per cent, while anyone minimally qualified should be granted admission.

Other policy decisions include the draft re-entry guidelines for girls who dropped out of school prematurely as a result of marriage/pregnancy as a reference document; the reviewed national policy on inclusive education as a working document in Nigeria; the reviewed National Education Quality Assurance Policy and its implementation guidelines as a working document in Nigeria; the reviewed National policy on HIV and AIDS for the education sector as a national working document in Nigeria.