The Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council has reduced the cost of textbook assessment and ranking.
It also directed that publishers who paid the previous, higher assessment fees be refunded, in a move aimed at easing the financial burden on stakeholders ahead of the implementation of the Federal Government’s National Textbook Ranking System.
The decision was announced in a statement personally signed by the Executive Secretary of the Council, Professor Salisu Shehu, and released today in Abuja.
According to the statement, the assessment fee has been reduced from 2,000 naira to 1,500 naira per page, while the ranking fee has been reviewed downward from one million naira to 750,000 naira per textbook title.
Professor Shehu said the revised charges take immediate effect and are intended to support publishers and authors participating in the new textbook evaluation process.
