Federal Education Quality Assurance Service (FEQAS)
Last updated: 11 September, 2026
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Department Overview
The Federal Education Quality Assurance Service (FEQAS) Department, formerly the Federal Inspectorate Service, was established in 1973 to provide the Federal Ministry of Education with leadership, direction and national policy formulation on education quality assurance.
Today, the Department regulates and coordinates all matters relating to education quality assurance policies, processes, and practices in Nigeria, spanning school self-evaluation, external evaluation, curriculum monitoring, examination oversight, and evaluator training. It is headed by a Director at the Headquarters Office, with operations extending across the thirty six States and the Federal Capital Territory through Coordinating Evaluators in each location.
Our Vision
To have a dynamic education quality assurance system that ensures effective and efficient education service delivery in schools below tertiary level.
Our Mission
To set agreed national education standards that ensure optimal attainment in all educational institutions below tertiary level, through education quality assurance processes and practices that guarantee an effective and efficient educational system for improved learning outcomes.
Mandate
- Set,maintain and improve standards in all aspects of the school system
- Ensure minimum standards and quality assurance of instructional activities in schools through regular monitoring, supportive supervision, assessment and evaluation
- Disseminate information regularly on the problems and difficulties of teachers and institutions, and offer practical solutions
- Encourage the dissemination of information on innovative and progressive educational principles and practices in the school system through publications, workshops, meetings, seminars and conferences
- Organise meetings and workshops for teachers where necessary, with a view to improving their professional competence
Core Functions
Guided by the values of Quality Service, Professionalism, Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability and Integrity, the Department’s core functions include:
- Formulate, implement and evaluate education quality assurance (EQA) policies at Federal, State and Local Government levels
- Monitor and support effective curriculum implementation and delivery in schools and learning centres
- Train, certify and professionally develop evaluators and school leaders, in partnership with relevant stakeholders
- Set, regulate and enforce compliance with education quality standards
- Conduct whole school evaluation across basic, senior secondary, non-formal and vocational education
- Collect and collate data to support education research, planning and systemic evaluation
Leadership
DIRECTOR
Mr. Ajide Sunday Joel
Mr. Ajide Sunday Joel, the director, Federal Education Quality Assurance Service (FEQAS) Department, Abuja, Nigeria is responsible for leading and directing the Federal Education
Quality Assurance Service Department in improving its policies, processes, and practices.
He emphasises the significance of education quality assurance as the cornerstone for transforming Nigeria’s educational landscape.
Civil Service: He joined the civil service in 1989 as an Education Officer III. He taught for several years and held various leadership positions in the school system. He was deployed to the Federal Education Quality Assurance Service Department in August, 2011. He rose through the ranks to become a director in 2021.
He is a member of many committees in the Federal Ministry of Education.
Divisions: Curriculum Standards and Pedagogy
Branches:
- Curriculum
implementation, - Pedagogical and
andragogical
Strategies, - Monitoring Learning
Resources.
Key Functions:
- Effective curriculum implementation in schools and learning centres.
- Appropriate methods and strategies for curriculum delivery in schools and learning centres.
- Assessment of learning resources in schools and learning centres.
Divisions: Continuous Professional Development
Branches:
- Tooling and Skilling.
- Accreditation.
- Partnerships &
Support Services.
Key Functions:
- Training of Evaluators and School Leaders. Certification of Evaluators.
- Collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
Divisions: Regulations, Standards and Compliance
Branches:
- Regulations &
standards. - Compliance &
Sanctions. - Documentation &
Records.
Key Functions:
- Regulation of standards in schools and learning centres.
- Assessment of compliance.
- Enforcement of sanctions
- .Records and documentation of schools and EQA activities.
Divisions: Planning and Policy Implementation
Branches:
- Policy Planning.
- Systemic evaluation.
- Data management.
Key Functions:
- Formulation of EQA policies.
- EQA policies implementation & evaluation.
- Data collection & collation for
research & planning
Divisions: Whole School Evaluation
Branches:
- FLN/Basic Schools.
- Senior Secondary
Schools. - Non formal &
vocational Schools
Key Functions:
- Monitoring and evaluation of FLN and basic schools.
- Monitoring and evaluation of quality education in senior secondary schools.
- Monitoring and assessment of quality education in Tsangaya and Madrasa schools and vocational centres.
Key Services
- Whole School Evaluation, encompassing School Self-Evaluation and External Evaluation processes
- Evaluation processes covering special, accreditation and follow-through evaluations
- On-the-spot monitoring and supervision of schools below tertiary level
- Monitoring the conduct of public examinations
- Classroom lesson observations
- Assessment of teacher quality and performance in schools below tertiary level
- Annual education quality assurance self-assessment of state evaluators
- Annual policy meeting of the National Education Quality Assurance Committee
- Annual Report on the State of Education in Nigeria
- Tooling and retooling of evaluators through continuous professional development
- Skilling of school leaders and teachers
- Monitoring and assessment of learning achievements in senior secondary schools
- Monitoring and assessment of new curriculum implementation in schools below tertiary level
- Monitoring and assessment of the National Policy on Safety, Security and Violence Free Schools
- Monitoring and assessment of learning resources in schools below tertiary level
- Monitoring and assessment of curriculum implementation and andragogical strategies in non-formal centres
Key Programmes / Projects
- Review and validation of the Handbook on Education Quality Assurance for Basic and Secondary Schools in Nigeria
- Digitisation of education quality assurance work processes and practices
- System strengthening of education quality assurance processes and practices at Federal, State and Local Government levels
- Development of the National Training Manual for Evaluators
Achievements
- Annual National Education Quality Assurance Policy Committee meeting
- Stakeholder engagement meetings on the National Education Quality Assurance Policy across the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory
- Quarterly production of the FEQAS Newsletter
- Skilling of school leaders on effective leadership and management
- Digitisation of education quality assurance work processes
- Review and validation of the National Education Quality Assurance Handbook for Basic and Secondary Schools in Nigeria
- Development of the National Training Manual for Evaluators
- Collaboration with the Regional Teacher Initiative for Africa on the production of a training manual for education quality assurance evaluators on teacher assessment
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Contact Information
Main Office: Federal Education Quality Assurance Service Department Federal Ministry of Education Federal Secretariat, Shehu Shagari Way Abuja, Nigeria P.M.B 146, Garki
- Email: ajide.sunday@education.gov.ng
- Phone: 0706 140 0050