Senate President, David Mark has stated the intentions of the National Assembly (NASS) to initiate new legislations on educational policies in the country.
This is part of the growing concern of the legislative arm over the continuing strike by staff of the tertiary institutions in the country as well as efforts toward regulating incessant industrial actions in the country.
Mark noted this at the first conference of National and State Assembly Committees on Education held by the Senate Committee on Education in Abuja.
The Senate Minority leader, Senator Ganiyu Solomon represented Mark at the event.
Mark noted that it has become compulsory for all stakeholders to pay close attention to the needed transformation of the country’s education sector.
“Issues of educational development have been priority of government and it has called for comprehensive and sustainable policies that will deliver good standards, decent environment and cost effectiveness.”
Mark urged the federal government and ASUU to urgently come to terms and call off the strike which is now about 84 days old.
“The persistent industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian universities has had huge impact on the country’s education system and there is need for the senate to initiate legislative solutions to the problem” he appealed.
Also, Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Senator Uche Chuwkumerije, identified “poor funding and inconsistent policies” as the two major challenges facing the country’s education sector.
But Senator Chuwkumerije also reassured that the senate committee’s on education holds the sector in high regards as “central to the development and maintenance of the different sectors of the nation’s economy”.