- It is funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
In Kano, some teachers have undergone training in a new teaching method aimed at enhancing literacy levels in the state.
This initiative, known as Accelerated Learning and executed under the Partnership for Learning for All in Nigerian Education (PLANE) platform, is funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and implemented by a consortium led by DIA, an international development group.
The program seeks to introduce a modern learning system to more schoolchildren, allowing them to develop academically and mentally. Selected teachers receive intensive training and then disseminate their knowledge to colleagues before directly engaging with students.
This cascading approach, as stated by project administrators, ensures that the program’s benefits reach a broader audience, thereby enhancing its impact.
“Unlike the conventional schooling system, it came with assessing the children, knowing their position at a particular time.
“And after the intervention, we see where they are, and you find out that we have the baseline whereby you have more than 75% or 80% of children in literacy. They cannot recognise even letters.
“But after the training, after the intervention, you find out that percentage has actually reduced drastically, and the same thing for those children who were not able to actually read maybe small sentences, we have found at the story level, which is an achievement that is vividly clear,” part of the statement read.
Kano has one of the lowest literacy rates in Nigeria, with 46.1% of the state’s population without primary education, according to a 2018 study.
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