Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
The Federal Government has provided some specific guidelines for reopening of schools in the country.<\/p>\n
The guidelines announced by the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, on Friday cover four thematic areas.<\/p>\n
They include: staying home and learning safely before schools and learning facilities reopen; Reopening process; and Conditions for safety when learning facilities are reopened.<\/p>\n
In each of these areas, actions and responsibilities, according to the Minister, are identified for various stakeholders such as \u201cpolicy, financing, safe operations, learning, training, reaching the most marginalized, building back better, safety and hygiene, Infection Prevention and Control, (IPC).\u201d<\/p>\n
Nwajiuba noted that staying home and learning in a safe environment will address learners and educators\u2019 basic physical safety needs and also ensure that all learners and their family members remain safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis means that all education environments must be inclusive irrespective of location, access to the internet, and socio-economic background,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the Minister announced actions recommended to safeguard the health, safety and security of learners accessing remote learning while ensuring that quality outcomes are obtainable:<\/p>\n
These include: \u201cConduct online training that not only prepares teachers to teach in a way that safeguards the health, safety, and security of the learners but also enables them to facilitate learning using 21st-century pedagogy based on Information and Communications Technology, (ICT).<\/p>\n
\u201cRevise to strengthen current remote learning programs initially launched for stronger curriculum backing towards improving relevance and quality on a grade level to level basis.<\/p>\n
\u201cProvide learners access to online resources materials online learning platforms, radio or television programs.<\/p>\n
\u201cChildren and young people should at home and wash their hands regularly, maintain personal hygiene and adhere to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC), and World Health Organisation, (WHO), Covid-19 guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Minister, however, said that Federal and State Ministries of Education (SMoE) will decide when to reopen schools after due consultations with the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 (PTF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: The Federal Government has provided some specific guidelines for reopening of schools in the country. The guidelines announced by the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, on Friday cover four thematic areas. They include: staying home and learning safely before schools and learning facilities reopen; Reopening process; and Conditions for safety when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":16613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,29],"tags":[808],"class_list":["post-27526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","tag-education-in-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\n