The Kaduna State
government has concluded plans to review the remuneration and welfare package
of teachers to make the profession attractive.
The
Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Ja’afaru Sani, who
disclosed this at a news conference in Kaduna, said the state government would
introduce attractive incentives for teachers in rural areas as part of ongoing
reform to ensure quality education in the state.
Giving an update on
the ongoing recruitment of 25,000 teachers for public primary schools in the
state, he said it had become necessary to motivate and retain qualified and
professional teachers posted to rural areas.
According
to him, the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) is working to ensure
that the first batch of newly recruited teachers are a deployed to schools in
February.
The
commissioner said there would be no compromise on quality of teachers to be
employed in the ongoing recruitment of the 25,000 teachers.
He
said the 21,780 teachers sacked for failing competency test still have a chance
to be reconsidered by reapplying, adding that about 12,000 of them have
reapplied.
Sani
commended parents and other relevant stakeholders in the education sector for
supporting the government in its efforts to reform the sector for the benefit
of over two million pupils in the state, adding that the sector will no longer
be a dumping ground for unqualified teachers.
“Currently,
we have more teachers in urban areas than we have in rural areas because the
salary package is the same and so whenever teachers are posted to rural schools
they redeploy to urban centres.
“Governor
Nasir El-Rufa’i has directed the ministry of education and other relevant
stakeholders to come up with juicy incentives that will keep quality teachers
in rural areas.
“We
will also introduce a programme for identifying ‘super teachers’ and motivate
them to encourage the clamour for excellence in the teaching profession,” the
commissioner said.
He
added that the state government is determined to entrench quality and standard
in teaching and learning in its schools.
“The
El-Rufa’i led-administration strongly believes that only access to affordable
and quality education would ensure social mobility for children of the poor to
have improved standard of living.
“This
is because only quality education will equip them with the needed skills to be
creative, inventive and be part of the social movement towards development and
self-fulfilment.”
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