Scholarships alone are not enough to get more qualified female teachers into Nigeria’s schools
NIGERIA'S northern rural regions suffer acute shortages of both female teachers and female pupils. UNICEF estimates that over half of all girls are not in school in the north while under a third of all primary school teachers are women. SARA HUMPHREYS, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sussex MÁIRÉAD DUNNE, Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Sussex NAUREEN DURRANI, Professor, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University To boost the numbers of female teachers in rural locations, an ambitious scholarship scheme was established to train young women from these areas to become teachers in their home villages. It was hoped…