World Bank To Adopt Anambra's Education Module

World Bank officials from Abuja, led by the
Country Director, Me Marie Francoais
Marie-Nelly, arrived in Awka yesterday for
the kick-off of the Anambra State Education
Programme Investment Project(SEPIP),
which is part of his “Final Push ,” towards
the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).
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The project involves $150 million among
Anambra, Ekiti and Bauchi states.
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Speaking on the project, the Senior
Education Specialist for the World Bank,
Prof. Tunde Adekola said Anambra State
was selected for World Bank intervention
because Governor Peter Obi demonstrated
accountability by using available resources
to deliver better education results.
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He said that the World Bank would
adopt Obi’s direct disbursement of
resources to end-users since it had
evidently worked in the state
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Adekola said the criteria for selection was
based among states that had demonstrated
great support to education on their own,
while the World Bank was working to
encourage them.
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“We shall from time to time evaluate what
Anambra is doing. Once we see
improvement as it is now, we shall offer
more support.”
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Part of the assistance will go in the area of
special employment and training of
teachers in core subjects of English,
Mathematics and the Sciences.
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The delegation later visited Queen of the
Rosary Secondary School, Onitsha, Dennis
Memorial Secondary School, Onitsha; and
Christ the King College, Onitsha witnessed
the handing over of the cheques of N30
million to the three schools for continued
infrastructural development and said that
they were impressed by what they saw in
the three schools.
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The World Bank had to commission the
team from Oxford University led by
Prof. Collier to study what Anambra
State is doing in the education sector
that led to the noticeable improvement.
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Meanwhile, Obi has presented a cheque of
N1.5 billion to the schools in the state as
part of the continued efforts by his
government toward their rehabilitation,
assuring that he was committed to all
levels of education.
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Marie-Nelly said she was overwhelmed by
the level of infrastructure she witnessed in
schools in the state and thanked the
governor for that.
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She advised students to work hard to
enable them equip themselves adequately
to compete with others anywhere across
the world. She said with internet
connectivity and computers in schools in
Anambra State, she was confident the state
was on the right path.
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