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Vision for Education:

A State with functional and qualitative education which will serve as the catalyst for development, job creation, poverty alleviation and as a foundation for our envisaged science and technology and industrial revolution.

 

To achieve the desired functionality and quality in our educational system, this sector which is the main determinant of our collective future must be totally re-organized. Our strategy for this aspect will be the production of quality teachers, expansion of our education infrastructure and increased funding.  


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Empowers the people with knowledge and competence to provide in abundance the requisite skills, knowledge, and abilities to drive a modern knowledge based economy and inculcate good moral ethics by exposing pupils and students to rewarding teaching and learning processes in well equipped and administered schools.

  • Services
    • Curriculum Design
      Curriculum re-designed to emphasize functional use of acquired knowledge to harness our natural raw materials (both agricultural and minerals) to produce tangible goods, services that are in line with our aggressive rural industrialization programme
      Teaching
      With our basic aim being teaching to read and write we have ensured we do this with a human face and a conducive environment. We have ensured graceful processes for formal education with academics and extra curricula activities. We have also come into partnership with structured teaching systems such as Jolly Phonics, UCIMAS, and learning centres such as the French Language Center
      Examinations
      We conduct various levels of terminal examinations to consolidate the gains of teaching and learning activities for optimal performance and outstanding attainments.
      Libraries
      Functional state libraries are provided Abak, Eket, Uyo, Ikot Ekpene, and Etinan with large collection of materials to foster learning and academic excellence to create a fulfilled, and academically enriched environment.
      Targeted Education
      Promotion of need-based learning to position capacity for various industrial concerns so as to widens the state's potentials for commerce, industry, mines, agriculture, tourism, sports, and even foreign direct investment.
      Monitoring, Supervision, and Inspection
      Education inspectors make up the monitoring team that go round public schools to make sure the right things are done, including stamping out illegal fees. Teachers are motivated, trained and adequately supervised to ensure they play the role expected of them.
      Tertiary Education Management
      Provision of support infrastructures at state and federal tertiary institutions and securing accreditation of courses at our higher institutions.
      Student Finance
      Apart from making primary and secondary education free Government, pays school heads for logistics, pays SSCE and NABTEB fees for all students, provides financial incentives at tertiary levels such as scholarships to study abroad as well as disbursement of bursary to Akwa Ibom students in tertiary institutions nationwide. Our students in specialised fields such as law, medicine and maritime are entitled to education grants.
  • Impact
    • Enhanced Learning Environments
      The right environment to optimise personal aspirations and for different professions to thrive has been developed. This makes it possible to build careers out of intellectual capital.
      Robust Educational Facilities
      With 1,110 primary schools, 230 secondary schools, and 11 tertiary institutions Akwa Ibom State adequately caters for the educational needs of the population with spacious classrooms, well equipped laboratories and workshops, and administrative facilities.
      Developmental Solutions
      Akwa Ibom State University is made to achieve its set objectives of providing solutions to our science and technological problems especially in the areas of oil and gas technology, marine resource utilization and industrial development
      Science Education
      Our educational system is re-focused and repositioned towards science and technological development.
      Bigger Budgetary Allocation
      Akwa Ibom State government makes special consideration in the budgetary allocation of over 60,000,000 USD annually to education.
      Talent Development
      We have provided mechanisms to nurture, manifest, emergent, and latent talent and abilities among our students for effectiveness and sustainable career development and management.
      Education Emancipation
      Akwa Ibom State quickly moved past the stage of rehabilitating dilapidated schools and boosting the morale of teachers to catalyse rapid growth into a knowledge based economy.
      Community Support
      Groups and individuals now donate text books, exercise books, lab equipment, and teaching aids, generously to schools and the educational sector in support of government free education policy.
  • Policies
    • Free & Compulsory Education
      Free and compulsory education for primary and secondary schools with free text books, which has been described by National Association of Nigerian Students as an Incredible Vision, Concept, and Implementation, has resulted in tripled school enrolments and kept pupils in schools and learning cycles towards a sustainable livelihood and out of crime.
      Education Best Practices
      End-to-end education management for exposure to the best learning experiences and impactful teaching processes to build the knowledge component of the state's economy and provide in abundance the requisite skills, knowledge, and abilities to drive a modern knowledge based economy.
      Reformative Policies
      These are geared towards reorganising and repositioning our educational system for qualitative results and greater functionality. These reforms have discouraged corruption, academic dishonesty, misconducts, exam malpractice and a host of other unethical practices.
  • Projects
    • Akwa Ibom State University
      Akwa Ibom State University has launched into full academic activities and even appointed her first Chancellor. The AKSU became a priority educational project, with the House of Assembly issuing a bill for operation as a conventional university, and a new management team that worked towards securing the nod of the National Universities Commission (NUC), the university is a great success story.
      e-Library
      Built to support people in Nigeria and around the world to study and have a better reason for living through education by providing online physical and electronic educational materials with support to the general public.
      Extensive Facelift
      School facilities received very extensive facelift in large scale intervention carried out by the Inter- ministerial Direct Labour Projects Coordinating Committee. School buildings have been renovated and new libraries, workshops and laboratories built in secondary and primary schools right across the state
      UBE Implementation
      Akwa Ibom is driving a three-component instruction system - universal, basic and education for necessary skills to survive the economic environment. With universal we deliver education for all classes of people irrespective of ability, regularity, mental capacity, and readiness. On the basic we also deliver fundamental and essential training as a starting point in the acquisition of knowledge. And for education, it is what is essential for life.
      Inter-School Competitions
      We regularly organise extra-curricula activities spanning all schools in the state for a fun filled learning, sharpen skills, broaden the mind, discover talents, develop sportsmanship, encourage team building and cooperation. These activities are science quiz, current affairs quiz, science exhibitions, debates, athletics and football competitions, and cultural performances.
      Education Infrastructure Development
      Primary and secondary schools in all local governments were renovated, together with provision of new school buildings targeting a teacher: student ratio of 1:25 in our classrooms. In Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, a new digital center was delivered. Libraries are also provided to deepen reading culture.
      Teacher Employment And Training
      Skilled and intelligent teachers being employed to cope with rising school enrolments is improving literacy rate and reducing graduate unemployment. Re-training teachers periodically enables them appreciate and fit into our new thinking of functional and qualitative education while at the same time implementing the 27.5% new TSS for teachers salaries.

Education in Akwa Ibom State

Education is a consuming passion of the people and Government of Akwa Ibom State. From 2007 till date education moved from ruins and commodities beyond reach to citadels of equal opportunities practicing well articulated and State Government fortified Universal Basic Education (UBE) scheme, with government regularly raising standards to ensure greater performance. Education in Akwa Ibom has grown in leaps and bounds to become a major component of state economic empowerment and development strategy.

 

Academic activities are conducted in scholastically enriched 1,110 primary schools, 230 secondary schools and 11 tertiary institutions equipped with classrooms, libraries, workshops and laboratories targeting a teacher:student ratio of 1:25 per classroom. Besides, 5 State libraries, together with the brand new e-Library, are provided to deepen reading culture.

 

Formal teaching processes are conducted with academic and extra curricula activities together with structured teaching systems for best-in-class education. Educationists here build careers out of intellectual capital with curriculum re-designed to emphasize functional use of acquired knowledge. Inspectors go round schools to make sure the right things are done. Teachers are motivated, trained and adequately supervised to ensure better delivery.

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Free & Cumpolsory Education open details

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With Akwa Ibom's venture into free and compulsory education for primary and secondary schools since 2008 government granted children equal opportunities to develop worthwhile careers to benefit the society. With this policy the state's education sector became re-branded, re-positioned, and completely re-packaged. Also, with domiciliation of the Child Rights Act by the state government just a few months after, education in Akwa Ibom became a fundamental right for all children residing in the state.

 

In practice, Akwa Ibom's free education is 100% government funded with students paying absolutely no direct fees while government funds the entire education machinery in the state from budgetary commitments of about 60,000,000 USD annually to the free education scheme. As part of the policy, government pays subventions of 2 USD per student to 230 school principals and 0.75 USD per pupil to 1,110 primary school head teachers across the state to guard against back-door charges.

 

Reception for the scheme is enthusiastic, this has resulted to over 300% school enrolments. On the compulsory aspect, the child rights law takes care of truancy, which is combated by criminalising hawking by school-age children during school hours at the pain of arrests and prosecutions.

One of the greatest legacies the current administration has bequeathed on the people of Akwa Ibom State is the free and compulsory Education policy.  Under this policy, Akwa Ibom children of school age go to school free from primary to senior secondary level. In addition to free tuition, the State pays a subvention of N100 per primary school pupil and N300 per secondary school student to cater for logistics and expenses for the administration of each child.

 

Also, government has ensured the provision of a conducive learning environment in schools for the Akwa Ibom children through massive rehabilitation and reconstruction of schools’ blocks, provision of science and laboratory equipment, construction of hostels and supply of desks etc. Other achievements are:

  • Free and compulsory Education from primary to senior secondary School level. So far over N10 Billion has been expended on the programme
  • Payment of SSCE fees for all students in Public Secondary Schools
  • Payment of NABTEB fees for all students in Public Technical Colleges
  • Procurement and distribution of science equipment and materials to public secondary schools
  • Implementation of the 27.5% new TSS for teachers
  • Payment of grant to law students, pie medical and medical students
  • Provisions of Laptops to all law students in the 2008/2009 batch of the Nigeria Law School
  • Provision of facilities/construction of internal roads in the University of Uyo
  • Construction of an e-library in the State to serve as a reference centre for researchers in the State in particular and the south-south region generally
  • Provision of free text books in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematic and Integrated Science (200,000 each)
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AKHA Deputy Leader, Mrs. Ekaette Ebong Okon, presenting a souvenir to Gov. Akpabio in Govt. House, Uyo, when she led political, academic, and professional leaders of Itu State Constituency to pay a solidarity visit to the Governor AKS Deputy Governor, His Excellecy Mr. Nsima Ekere, representing the Governor, delivers a speech after the conferment of degrees at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ceremonies of the institution on Saturday 22nd October AKS Deputy Governor, His Excellency Mr. Nsima Ekere, representing the State Governor in a chat with Senate President, Sen. David Mark, at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ceremonies of the institution on Saturday 22nd Octobe AKS Deputy Governor, His Excellency Mr. Nsima Ekere, representing the State Governor, congratulates Deputy Senate President Sen. Ike Ekweremadu after being awarded Honourary Doctor of Law at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation AKS Deputy Governor, His Excellency Mr. Nsima Ekere, representing the State Governor, congratulates Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma after being awarded Honourary Doctor of Law at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ceremonies of the insti AKS Deputy Governor, His Excellency Mr. Nsima Ekere, seated with wife at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ceremonies of the institution on Saturday 22nd October Best performing graduating student, Idongesit Festus, of Electrical/Electronincs Engineering Department delivers a valedictory speech at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ceremonies of the institution on Saturday 22nd October Chancellor of the University of Uyo, the Emir of Fika, Dr. Muhammadu Abali Idrissa, admits graduands presented by the Dean of Faculty of Agriculture for degree awards at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ceremonies of the ins Chancellor of the University of Uyo, the Emir of Fika, Dr. Muhammadu Abali Idrissa, awards Honourary Doctor of Science to Mutiu Sumonu, Managing Director and Country Chair Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the Chancellor of the University of Uyo, the Emir of Fika, Dr. Muhammadu Abali Idrissa, congratulates a doctorate degree graduand at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ceremonies of the institution on Saturday 22nd October Chancellor of the University of Uyo, the Emir of Fika, Dr. Muhammadu Abali Idrissa, congratulates a top performing graduand at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ceremonies of the institution on Saturday 22nd October Chancellor of the University of Uyo, the Emir of Fika, Dr. Muhammadu Abali Idrissa, congratulates Deputy Senate President Sen. Ike Ekweremadu after being awarded Honourary Doctor of Law at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ce Chancellor of the University of Uyo, the Emir of Fika, Dr. Muhammadu Abali Idrissa, congratulates Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma after being awarded Honourary Doctor of Law at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ceremonies of the institu Dean of Faculty of Engineering in a bow after Chancellor of the University of Uyo, the Emir of Fika, Dr. Muhammadu Abali Idrissa, admitted graduands presented for degree awards at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ceremonies Dean of School of Post-Graduate Studies presents graduands to the Chancellor of the University of Uyo, the Emir of Fika, Dr. Muhammadu Abali Idrissa, to be admitted for post graduate degree awards at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th con Deans of the University of Uyo seated at UNIUYO convocation grounds during the 17th and 18th convocation ceremonies of the institution on Saturday 22nd October
     
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