FG Cancels Foreign Training For Nigerian Scholars

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November 27, 2024

The Minister of Education, Dr. Mauruf Alausa, announced that the Federal Government has decided to cancel all foreign training programs for scholars moving forward.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of a three-day conference organized by the British Council in Abuja on Tuesday, Dr. Alausa stated that scholars will now receive their training within Nigeria.

The conference, themed “Building Sustainable and Relevant Tertiary Institutions and Systems in Africa,” brought together key stakeholders in education.

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Dr. Alausa also revealed that the Federal Government plans to invest significantly in the development of the country’s universities, including the construction of simulation labs, as part of efforts to enhance higher education infrastructure.

“We have just decided to canceled foreign training for scholars. The amount of money we are spending to train one scholar abroad, we could use it to train 20 people here. We will be training everybody here.

“We will unleash capacity in our universities. We are going to be spending more money now on research, innovation, and also on welfare, both on our academics and non-academics,” he said.

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The minister said that the Federal Government was poised to use education to empower the youths.

“I have just spoken about the first component of our six-pillar agenda. The second component will be focusing heavily on technical, vocational and educational training,” he said.

He said that young Nigerians would be incentivise to go to technical college and acquire technical knowledge.

“We will pay for their tuition as a second step, and as a third step, a master craft person, when they will get their practical training, we will pay them as well.

“The curriculum will be 80 per cent practical on-the-job training and 20 per cent didactic, and as they are finishing, we will also give them entrepreneurial grants, not loan,” he said.