From:Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
Stakeholders in the education sector have developed advocacy strategies and influencing plans to promote girl child education and second chance education initiative across Kaduna State.
The strategies were developed in Kaduna yesterday at a meeting supported by Kaduna Basic Education Mechanism (KADBEAM), in collaboration with Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL).
Mr. Martins Dangwa of the Coalition of Associations for Leadership, Peace, Empowerment, and Development, said that the total public primary school enrolment was 1.8 million, of which 882,411 were girls, representing 48 percent.
Dangwa said that the figure was based on the state’s Annual School Census (ASC) 2018/2019.
He added that the enrolment in public Junior Secondary schools was 297,139 out of which 142,021 were girls, also representing 48 percent of the total enrolment.
He pointed out that while the enrolment was impressive, the transition from primary to junior secondary school had remained a challenge.
According to him, the ASC shows that 297,139 transits to junior secondary school out of the 1.8 million enrolments in public primary schools, meaning that 1.5 million dropped out along the line.
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