The Universal Basic Education Commission UBEC has set aside N21.6b for the take-off of smart schools across the country.
The project involves the building and equipping of smart schools across the country with modern instructional and vocational materials.
Executive Secretary, of UBEC Hamid Bobooyi disclosed this in a statement.
The executive secretary said the commission has commenced the development of course outline and contents for the training of education managers, teachers, technical support personnel and other stakeholders for the schools and e-learning programs.
“The Smart Schools initiative he said will take care of Information, Communication and Telecommunication gabs in the training of school children and will be located at zonal, state and senatorial levels all over the country,
“The program, he added will ensure full implementation of e-Learning programs in tBasic Education across the country following the challenges occasioned in the sub-sector by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and closure of Schools.
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“These building he explained are of ultra modern Sstandard and different from the usual inferior buildings you find in our schools
“Under the leadership of Dr Boboyi, UBEC as an intervention agency wants to set a new standard on how school buildings and public infrastructures should be.
“With this commendable example from UBEC other MDAs should take a cue in order to make the era of sub-Standard public infrastructure a thing of the past,” the statement added.