FG inaugurates UBEC digital resource centre, trains 10,000 teachers, educators

A total of 10,000 teachers and educators have been trained in the Universal Basic Education Commission ,UBEC, Digital Resource Centre ,DRC.

Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, who disclosed this on Friday while officially commissioning the project at Kado area of Abuja, said the centre is designed to enhance the provision of a smart teaching and learning environment for teachers and students.

Disclosing that the teachers and educators who received various forms of training at the centre were being prepared for the full take off of the 37 smart schools built by the federal government through UBEC across the 36 states of the Federation and FCT, the minister said the centre is second to none in the world, as there cannot have been a better time to develop digital technology in education than now especially as the current administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is looking at building vocational institutions across the country.

He said everything would be done to ensure the timely upgrading of the centre to ensure quality delivery for what it is worth.

Speaking at the occasion, the senator representing Kogi-Central, Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan noted that if education is universal, it means whatever a child learns in Nigeria should be the same as any child learns in every other country and that is why, according to her, the concept of a digital resource centre is necessary for the country.

Akpoti-Uduaghan, who is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Local Content, pledged the commitment of the committee to collaborate with the centre towards realising its noble objectives.

Also speaking, the chairman of Senate Committee on Education, Senator Lawal Adamu commended UBEC for the digital resource centre, noting that a smart education centre is key to global development.

Earlier, executive secretary of the UBEC, Dr Hamid Bobboyi said the establishment of the centre marks a milestone for Nigeria’s quest for digital education.

“UBEC has the mandate to coordinate quality education in Nigeria through innovation like the establishment of the Digital Resource Centre that employs the power of technology for education. This is to ensure that students and teachers have access to digital tools in a globalised world,” Bobboyi said.

The whole idea, he noted, is to provide high digital quality content for users in order to bridge the gap between traditional and modern learning.

“We envisage a future where every Nigerian child has access to quality education ,” he added.