The Kwara Government and Daar Communications PLC are to promote quality education through the employment of Satellite Television Educational Service for all tiers of the education system.

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed gave this assurance when the Chairman Board of Directors of Daar Communications PLC, Dr Raymond Dokpesi led the organisation's management team on a sensitization visit to the governor on its satellite television direct to home/class educational service.

Governor Ahmed said it was unfortunate that Nigeria has been experiencing steady decadence in the education sector. "We have found ourselves with a generation of Nigerians where the education of the coming generation is worse than the previous generation. The reverse should be the case. It is only in Nigeria that some of us who went to school 30 years ago are now saying that we had an educational opportunity which our children today don't have", he said.

Dr Ahmed canvassed for a reversal of the decline in the education sector, warning that Nigeria could be heading towards catastrophe in the education sector if the ugly situation is not checked. He said the Nigerian Child, if badly educated may be unable to fit into the competitive world of new challenges.

Governor Ahmed said it was commendable that Daar Communications PLC has taken the initiative of addressing some of the problems confronting the education system through the deployment of its satellite services for the enhancement of teaching and learning within and outside the classroom.

Dr Ahmed said his administration had carried out reforms in the education sector to make it more functional and relevant for human capital development. Such reforms, according to him, included the development of curricular relevant for primary education for State's Colleges of Education and the partnership with City and Guilds of London in the running of the States International Vocational Centre to produce high quality middle level manpower for national and international markets.

Governor Ahmed noted that his administration's policy in the education sector was driven by the assessment of the impact of such policies and not just measurement of input and output in order to achieve desired results.

Speaking earlier, the Chairman of Daar Communications PLC, Dr Raymond Dokpesi said the satellite direct to home/class educational service would promote quality education, vocational training as well as primary and post primary education through the simulation of classroom situations for students to learn at home on a complimentary basis.

Dr Dokpesi said it was disturbing that candidates in competitive examination like West African Certificate of Education, National Examination Council and joint Admissions and Matriculations have in recent years posted poor results.

The Chairman Daar Communications PLC, who said his organisation's initiative has been approved by the Federal Ministry of Education, noted that all stakeholders must come together to revamp the education sector, adding that his organization was working with Oxford University and Teachers Media to articulate the examination system and lecture formats within and outside classroom contexts for desired results.

He solicited the technical assistance of the Kwara State government, particularly in the area of provision of energy to drive the satellite based programmes in the schools.