As the nation’s three tiers of educational system remains closed due to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Ministry of Education has uploaded on its website more electronic learning resources and education chat rooms of different states for their pupils to utilise.
Businessday check on the website of the ministry showed that only 17 out of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory(fct),abuja had their e-learning websites uploaded.
The states are: Abia, Anambra, Benue, Edo, Delta, Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara, Nassarawa, Niger, Imo, Enugu, Ogun, Ondo, Kogi, Kaduna and Lagos.
In its remark, Federal Ministry of Education said: “This webpage has been developed by the Task Team responsible for coordinated Education Response to COVID- 19 pandemic, at providing information, guidance and resources to the 36 states and FCT for the continuing education and individualised learning of pupils at home.
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“Empowered by federal ministry of education and Universal Basic Education
Commission. It is intended that the webpage will provide guidance on learning resources and monitoring children at home in the period of the crisis.
“The task team has worked out a learn- at- home programme for ensuring the continuity of learning for all students through this trying period”, its added.
Also on the ministry’s website, there is another section for States e-learning radio and television programmes where about 16 States are represented.
Confirming on the elearning websites of Ondo state indicates that children could join a virtual classroom, a senior secondary school classroom and Junior secondary school classroom, a set of past questions for practice, chatrooms and other components.
However, Businessday reliably gathered that some of the states are concern with how best to eradicate the novel pandemic than the e-learning programme.
It would be recalled that Education Minister Adamu Adamu in April, had noted that the federal government was going to commence basic primary and secondary school classes on the national media to enable pupils to learn during the COVID-19 pandemic forced break.
