To ensure effective management of primary education devoid of truancy, Kebbi State Universal Basis Education Board (SUBEB) has procured and distributed 1,261 tablets to 1,261 primary schools representing 65 per cent of public schools in the state.
The executive chairman, Kebbi State SUBEB, Professor Suleiman Khalid, made the disclosure at the commencement of Public Schools Verification Programme held in Birnin Kebbi.
The verification tour was organised by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to ascertain areas of needs in public primary schools across the state.
Khalid said: “I invite you to note the deployment of technology in our dear state. DLI 7 deals with the deployment of digital attendance and record keeping in schools.
“Under this programme, our pupils in the state will be daily monitored and this will no doubt assist in tracking and monitoring the attendance, check-in and check-out of pupils and teachers in schools.
“Today, classroom attendance stood at 374,855 pupils representing roughly 67 per cent of the pupils is monitored digitally across the state.”
He said the deployment of digital attendance record keeping would certainly assist the School Based Management Committees, Education Administrators, Local Government Education Authorities and SUBEB to act swiftly on the issue of attendance of pupils in schools.
