The Universal Basic Education Commission has disclosed plans to introduce a school to work scheme aimed at equipping young school learners with life long skills and entrepreneurship for self-reliance.
Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi disclosed this at a meeting with Commissioners of Education, Executive State and FCT Universal Basic Chairmen, Education Boards on the School-to-Work Scheme held in Abuja.
Explaining that the target group for the scheme are learners in the junior secondary schools, Bobboyi expressed optimism that the initiative will provide them the opportunity to detect early in life where their talents and potential lie, between academic pursuit and vocational skills development.
The UBEC boss further gave a breakdown of how the scheme will be implemented.
In her remarks, the Director Basic Education, Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. Folake Davies, represented by Rose Onoja added that the Scheme which is inline with the road map policy of the ministry, will provide youths with the requisite experience necessary to excel whenever they find themselves in the work environment.
According to UBEC, the Scheme will be piloted in some centres in the states and FCT before scaling it up across the country.
