An electronic quality assurance system alongside Federal Education Quality Assurance Service Cloud Server (FEQAS) that can collect and boost the quality of basic and secondary education delivery in the country was launched by the federal government on Thursday.
The minister of state for education, Dr Yusuf Sununu, who formally launched the platform at a ceremony at the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Digital Resource Centre Abuja, said the innovative system is designed to streamline the collection, analysis and reporting of data related to the quality of education in schools across the nation.
Sununu was of the opinion that the automation of the Federal Education Quality Assurance Service Department with the establishment of the cloud server, the ministry would be better equipped to monitor, evaluate and improve education quality assurance processes and practices across the nation.
He was represented at the occasion by the director, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Abubakar Isa who said the cloud server would revolutionise the operations of the FEQAS Department.
According to him, “This would enhance data capturing and management, streamline processes and improve efficiency, boost collaboration, networking and efficient reporting, ensure scalability and flexibility; and fortify security and data protection.”
In his contribution, the executive secretary Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi said the manual conduct of school quality assurance evaluation and reporting is consistent with many challenges including delay and human errors, hence the need to automate the system.
He disclosed that the commission adopted the use of digital technology for the school quality assurance evaluation activities to promote flexibility, accuracy, timely reporting and reduction in human errors, noting that the progress was facilitated by the technical support the commission received from the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), leading to what he called the development of ‘UBEC Collect’, which is currently being used by Quality Assurance Officers in the commission, State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBs) and Local Government Education Authorities (LGEAS).
“I am glad to say that this innovation is helping the officers to conduct their work efficiently and provide timely feedback to school and stakeholders.
“The impact of the technological intervention in our school quality assurance evaluation encouraged us to decide to extend the facility to the Federal Quality Assurance Services (FEQAS) in the overall interest of educational development in the country.”
He stressed that the initiative would help tremendously in addressing the challenge of learning poverty in the country.
The director, Quality Assurance (UBEC), Mrs Helen Okoro, the launch of the initiative would now be on the same page towards achieving common goal in monitoring and evaluation of schools.
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