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North Central Zonal Office

Functions / Responsibilities of the Zonal Office

The overall objective of establishing the Zonal Offices is to bring the operations of the Council to the grassroot, liaising with different stakeholders in education towards the execution of the mandates of the Council. This shall entail working harmoniously with the stakeholders and State Ministries of Education (SMOEs).

The Zonal Offices are to carry out the following functions:

1. Encourage, promote, coordinate and carryout educational research programme within the Zone, in partnership with appropriate centres.
2. Market and disseminate all Councils publications.
3. Compile publications of results of educational research within the zone as may be directed and publicize such results where their general recognition in the Council’s opinion is of a national importance.
4. Promote the establishment of readership club within the zone.
5. Liaise with Ministries of Education, SUBEB, ERC, and other relevant agencies within the zone to promote educational research and development.
6. Promote and solicit capacity building programmes from States.
7. Collaborate with States to carryout capacity building programme for improving educational quality in areas that include:
   • Curriculum adaptation and use;
   • Instructional materials development;
   • Research skills for educational development;
   • Language development and application;
   • Strategic educational skills;
   • e-resources for educational development;
   • emerging issues on educational development;
   • budding authors and creative writers workshop; and
   • zonal academic work plan to be considered with the work plan of the main stream academic centres at the Headquarters.
8. Carryout advocacy and sensitization activities on NERDC mandates within the zone.
9. Service workshop that are organized in the zones by the Council.

Operational Activities of the Zones

1. Organizing training/capacity building workshop on effective implementation of the revised BEC and SSEC for teachers within the zone,
2. Marketing and dissemination of all Council's publications,
3. Carrying out advocacy and sensitization activities on NERDC mandates within the Zone, and
4. Servicing workshop that are organized in the Zones by the Council.