Textbook rankings put future of publishing and learning at risk, By Zainab Suleiman Okino
The Federal Government’s proposed Textbook Ranking Policy, championed by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has sparked intense debate within Nigeria’s education and publishing communities.
While the initiative is presented as a means of improving the quality of instructional materials, the Nigerian Publishers Association (NPA) argues that it could undermine decades of progress in educational publishing, encourage favouritism in textbook selection, threaten jobs, and create constitutional concerns over the powers of the federal and state governments in education, especially in view of the Federal Government’s stated commitment to devolve powers appropriately.
The proposed ranking policy departs from this widely accepted approach and risks creating market distortions, reducing textbook diversity, limiting professional choice, and concentrating educational content in the hands of a few providers.
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