The United Nations Children’s Fund has trained 140 non-formal Qur’anic school teachers to enhance access to quality education in Jigawa State.

The exercise is being implemented in collaboration between UNICEF and the European Union under the Integrated Qur’anic Teachers scheme.

The UNICEF focal person, Umma Abubakar, said this at the inauguration of the four-day training on Wednesday in Dutse.

She said the exercise was designed to build the capacity of the participants to improve quality learning outcomes using integrated curricular, foundational literacy and numeracy approaches.

“The training will be a life-changing experience for the teachers under the UNICEF/EU-funded Education and Youth Empowerment (EYE) project. The project is intervening in 200 integrated Qur’anic centres in 10 focal local government areas to enhance quality and standards in the delivery of the basic education,” she said.

Ms Abubakar said the project was providing technical support and training the facilitators, including males and females, to build their capacities towards improving quality learning outcomes.

One of the participants, Umar Abdullahi, lauded the gesture and pledged to step down the skills learnt to improve learning outcomes at the grass-roots. 

 (NAN)