Korea International Cooperation Agency, KOICA, has commenced building $15 million Model Primary and Junior Secondary schools in Nigeria. The project is in partnership with the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, and the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning, MBNP, as the coordinating body. The flag-off of the project by Jangsan Construction Company, which took place at the site of Abuja Model School project, is scheduled to be completed in October 2017. Country Director of KOICA Nigeria, Mr. Jung Sang-Hoon, at the ground-breaking ceremony said Korea has set education as one of its critical areas to help Nigeria acquire effective capabilities, skills and knowledge to realise continuous national development and growth.

He said: “Local workshop and invitational training courses, which are scheduled from the summer of 2016, have also been consulted with Korean PMC Team to provide relevant capacity building programmes for key academic and admin staffs for model schools. “Particularly for local workshop, some multimedia-based training programmes, covering the areas from basics of computer education to the practical development of supplementary teaching material using multimedia tools, are aimed at enhancing the capacity of teachers for sustainable model school education at classroom-based teaching and learning. “Abuja Model School will provide standard education in multimedia environment for the development of Nigerian public school education, thereby producing very excellent students of global standard as well as contributing to sustainable development of Universal Basic Education in Nigeria.”

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