The Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau is set to establish polytechnics and colleges of education in states where such institutions are non-existent.
According to him it is the intention of the present administration to ensure that each state in the country has a federal polytechnic and a college of education.
“Mr President has two main focuses on education sector, to increase access and improve the quality of education at all levels.’’
“Education is the bedrock of any socio-economic and political development, hence we need to equip our educational institutions with up-to-date infrastructure and relevant text books to improve the quality’’, he said
The minister said that the government would continue to pay attention to the sector in order to improve the socio-economic status of the people.
