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 Broad Sectoral Goals

1. Aggregate up to N5trillion yearly for investment in Education from the private sector to provide the infrastructure neccessary for delivering quality education and higher the best talents as educators
2. Education system is able to impact current, relevant & futuristic knowledge to citizens stronger laws that ensure broadbased, mandatory Curriculum Review and capacity building of educators
3. Incentivise industry experts across 15 selected industries who devote up to 1 day per month to transfer knowledge (teach) in selected universities & secondary schools at least once per month)
4. Incentivize educators to always be on top of their game by legislative fraemworks that ensure 360 degree rating systems – students will also issue report cards on the abilities of educators to transfer knowledge.
5. Create a National Honours Society for students who have excelled in academics and leadership & put them on steady pay till they find their feet to serve as role models.
6. Reduce the number of out-of-school children especially in the Northern Nigeria which currently has over 10.5m out-of-school children by incentivizing more northerners to go to school via inclusion of islamic studies in their curriculum

Bills

STRATEGY 1. REVIVAL OF THE STUDENTS LOAN BILL IN THE FEDERAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

What impact will this have?

1. Empower financially disadvantaged students to access quality education thus having the ability to lift themselves out of poverty
2. Provide direct additional revenue of over N5trillion for tertiary educational institutions yearly to adequately invest in
3. Guarantee better cashflow for higher institutions thus enabling them to access credit for working capital or other educational infrastructural investment
4. Create a entirely new value chain in the financial sector
5. Narrow the widening skills gap and check rising social inequality.

 STRATEGY 2: AMENDMENT OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION ACT

What impact will this have?

1. The above amendment shall ensure that the Universities Curriculum is regularly updated to meet current trends, technology and standards. It will swiftly move our educational curriculum from the outdated state it currently is to a more relevant state to meet the exigencies of the current world.
2. It would also mean that the system would produce more employable graduates with skills relevant for today’s world.

STRATEGY 3: AMENDMENT OF THE TETFUND ACT

What impact will this have?

1. This amendment would incentify the periodic curriculum review thereby serving as a motivation for institutions to review their curriculum.
2. This amendment would also eliminate or reduce the incidences of institutions underutilizing research funds from TETFUND or utilising such funds for irrelevant research. This is because research funds will be disbursed on the condition of an updated curriculum. An updated curriculum would surely aid institutions to decide the direction of its research.

STRATEGY 4: AMENDMENT OF ACT NO. 53 NERDC ACT

1. The regular curriculum review would bring the learning systems, techniques, and learning outcomes of primary and secondary school pupils up to date with modern exigencies.
2. Vocational studies will provide over 10million students yearly with life skills to become productive entrepreneurs, as it breeds creative and innovative ideas. In the long run, it impacts on the economy and also increases personal freedom.
3. Graduates looking for jobs can use their vocational skills to set up their businesses and earn income. The training of students in vocational education brings about both immediate and lasting economic returns for the country and its citizens.
4. Peace and Conflict education shall educate the students, in both primary and secondary schools, on the issues of peace, non-violence and tolerance; enable them to develop skills of active listening and critical thinking.
5. Students will be encouraged to see themselves as citizens of one single nation rather than to divide themselves along ethnic lines. They would also be taught anger management skills to assist in development of their conflicting resolution capacity.
6. According to UNICEF, Nigeria has 10.5million out of school children with 60 percent of that figure in northern children. The review of the curriculum to provide for Islamic education such as the almajiri schools that was introduced by the past administration but abandoned by this administration would reduce by half the out of school children in the north.

 STRATEGY 5: NATIONAL POLYTECHNIC COMMISSION (ESTABLISHMENT) BILL

What impact will this have?

1. This Act would ensure the establishment of the NPC solely for the regulation of Polytechnics unlike previously when it was being regulated by the National Board for Technical Education which has over 570 institutions.
2. The curriculum which will be reviewed once in three years will ensure that Nigerian polytechnics updated on current innovations.

STRATEGY 6: SPONSOR THE NATIONAL HONOURS SOCIETY BILL

What impact will this have?

1. This bill if passed shall encourage a culture of academic excellence amongst students and help correct the recent trend when winners of entertainment shows are hugely rewarded financially while the best students are given meagre sums of money.