FG Endorses Brainfriend Software for Nigerian Schools

FG Endorses Brainfriend Software for Schools

The Federal Ministry of Education has endorsed the CINFORES BrainFriend e-learning and examination preparatory software as a tool for the enhancement of teaching and learning methods in Nigerian schools.

The essence is to boost the efforts government in promoting local content in software development. CINFORES Limited is an indigenous software provider, which had over the years developed various educational solutions including the eCampus and electronic scholarship management information system.

The endorsement of BrainFriend software, which heralds the beginning of new era of local content development for education using ICT was achieved after due assessment by the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council, (NERDC)

This milestone attained by CINFORES Limited, underscores the commitment of indigenous software developers towards improving the education sector through the use of Information Technology (IT).

Speaking at a press conference to announce the endorsement at the weekend, the Manager, Business Development, CINFORES Limited, Mrs. Jachi Briggs told IT Journalists that the endorsement was a landmark feat that certifies the software as an e-learning and examination preparatory tool, which should be adopted by schools, institutions, exam bodies and instructors across the country.

The endorsement by the ministry, she said, remained a public authentication that proves the software attained the requisites for a standard e-learning tool suitable for the development of the education sector.

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has also approved and certified the software. This is in line with the agency's policy to test and ensure the quality of locally developed software, in a bid to make them meet the required global standards. For the agency, the benefit of promoting indigenous software such as Cinfores BrainFriend is another avenue to diversify the nation's economy and enhance the scope of outsourcing in the industry.

The software, which is computer based, contains questions, answers with explanations modelled after national examinations and screening tests, such as POST UTME, UTME, SSCE, NECO recruitment and scholarship tests. It is an e-learning tool that guarantees excellent result when used consistently by students or teachers.

Already, the 2013 version of the software which features over 50,000 questions, answers and explanations covers over 40 subjects; over 15,000 theorems, formula and definitions, now includes technical drawing, computer science, food and nutrition, more flexible career counselling guide and lots more. It is also now available for mobile devices running on android with IOS and Windows Mobile version to be released by next month.