The National President , Association For Formidable Educational Development (AFED), Mr. Orji Kanu Emmanuel,flanked by the Buckingham University-AFED Teacher Training Programme Manager, Dr. Daramola ibukun(right) and other content developers and consultants to the project during the launch of Bukingham-AFED pilot teacher training programme held in Lagos. recently
By nFunmi Ogundare
The Vice Chancellor , University of Burkingham, UK, Professor James Tooley has said that there are about 2.1 million children currently receiving education in 14,000 low cost private schools in Nigeria. Seventy per cent of this figure, he said, are pre-school and primary school age children.
Tooley disclosed this, weekend, at the launch of Bukingham-Association for Formidable Educational Development (AFED) pilot teacher training programme, aimed at expanding qualitative and affordable education to every Nigerian child. He expressed excitement that AFED schools are sprawling all over Africa and sub-Sahara