Katsina: UBEC Trains 85 Master Trainers To Boost Teacher Quality

The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has trained 85 state master trainers in Katsina to enhance the quality of teachers in the state.

The training aims to equip teachers with the necessary skills and knowledge to improve learning outcomes for pupils.

The initiative is part of UBEC’s efforts to improve the quality of basic education in Nigeria. By training master trainers, UBEC hopes to create a ripple effect that will benefit a larger number of teachers and students in the state.

The training is expected to have a positive impact on the state’s education sector, particularly in terms of teacher quality and student performance.

The six-day training which commenced in Katsina on Monday is organised under the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) funded Transforming Education System at State Level (TESS) initiative.

Speaking at the event, the National Programme Coordinator, Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) Mr Aleshin Olumayowa, said 85 state master trainers of school support officers would benefit.

According to him, such crucial training programme for designated project officers and School Support Officers (SSOs), embarked by the UBEC boss, Aisha Garba aimed to reform the basic education sub-sector.

Olumayowa added that the exercise aimed at enhancing teachers’ quality and support systems in Oyo, Adamawa, and Katsina (OAK) States.

”This initiative is a key component of the TESS programme, an Additional Financing (AF) provided by the GPE to build upon the successes of the BESDA programme in these states.

“The TESS programme focuses on three critical result areas; reducing the number of out-of-school children, improving teachers’ teaching practices, and enhancing teacher deployment and education expenditure transparency.

”This current training directly addresses the second result area Disbursement Linked Indicator Area 2 (DLI-2), by equipping key education stakeholders with the knowledge and skills to effectively support teachers through structured pedagogy methods and digital resources.

”The training programme is designed to familiarise participants with digitised teacher’s content, the school support officer’s platform, and the framework for supporting DLI 2,” he said.

In her keynote address, the state’s Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Hajiya Zainab Musa-Musawa, said the training was crucial and timely.

According to her, the training is not just another workshop, but a strategic step in the collective journey toward achieving Result Area two DLIs of the TESS Project.

Musa-Musawa represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Hajiya Ummukhair Bawa, explained that the project focused squarely on enhancing literacy outcomes as a cornerstone for all other forms of learning.

”As you all know, literacy is the bedrock of education. Without the ability to read, comprehend, and express, our learners will remain trapped in cycles of underachievement.

”That is why this intervention is vital not only for the fulfilment of project indicators, but for the transformation of lives, schools, and communities across Katsina State.

”The training of 85 State Master Trainers is a deliberate investment in building a pool of professional educators who will cascade best practices in literacy instruction to thousands of teachers across the state,” she said.

Meanwhile, the state project Coordinator, TESS, Hajiya Binta Abdulmuminu, said that objectives of the training include exposure to digitised content and providing a thorough understanding of the digitised self-study content across four core subjects.

Abdulmuminu said that other objectives include equipping officers with knowledge of the monitoring and evaluation framework for participants as well as the Education Management Information System (EMIS) platform for data collation.

She added that developing the skills necessary to effectively support the benefiting states in implementing the curated teacher content and SSO applications was part of the objectives.

Katsina: UBEC Trains 85 Master Trainers To Boost Teacher Quality is first published on The Whistler Newspaper