The Federal Government has launched the “Basic Education Transformation Agenda (BETA),” a comprehensive reform package to boost school enrollment and improve learning outcomes.
Unveiling the initiative, Minister of Education Dr. Tunji Alausa said BETA introduces “Conditional Cash Transfers to mothers to encourage school attendance and introduces a Back2School Drive…under which the government bears the full cost of enrollment during official handovers.”
The agenda targets key challenges, including out-of-school children, poor infrastructure, and outdated curricula.
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Alausa announced that five million youths will be trained within four years, and that N120bn has been approved for Technical and Vocational Education and Training.
Beginning in the 2025/2026 academic session, students in federal and state technical colleges will receive free tuition, boarding, and a N22,500 monthly stipend.
The training model will be “80 percent practical and 20 percent theoretical.”
The government also launched the STEMM Nigeria Agenda, which includes a N50m grant for undergraduate innovations.
Alausa said that basic education content has been updated, and “Civic education is now mainstreamed from basic to post-basic levels.”
He also announced a 50% increase in scholarship grants and the disbursement of N77bn from the Nigerian Education Loan Fund.
He also noted that “As of mid-2025, 27 states and the FCT had accessed N78.6bn, representing a 65 percent increase over previous years” in intervention resources from the Universal Basic Education Commission.
Alausa concluded by stating, “The era of piecemeal responses to education is over. We are cleaning up the system, restoring standards, and preparing Nigerian children to compete and thrive globally.”
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