Thirty one percent of teachers in public schools in Sokoto state are not
\nqualified, but educated enough to be trained to enhance their
\nqualifications to be in the classroom, a government committee has uncovered.<\/p>\n
In addition, the committee recommended the employment of additional 548 This was part of the recommendations of the schools needs assessment Presenting the report at Government House, chairman of the sub-committee, “There’s need to repost 537 teachers from some schools that are Sabeh said lack of ICT infrastructure in schools is a cause for concern, “Government must enforce compliance with Federal Government’s directives “In general, there is an ardent and urgent need for a robust capacity In his remarks, Tambuwal assured that the report will be implemented, while He said a new training schedule will be drawn up by the government to “Let me repeat it here that no teacher will be sacked from government “I want to commend the members of the sub-committee for a diligent job. The Thirty one percent of teachers in public schools in Sokoto state are not qualified, but educated enough to be trained to enhance their qualifications to be in the classroom, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nteachers in order to achieve a teacher\/student ratio of\u00a01:40<\/span><\/span>, the standard
\nset for public schools in the state.<\/p>\n
\nsub-committee of the committee on state of emergency set up by Governor
\nAminu Waziri Tambuwal to proffer practical solutions to challenges
\nconfronting education in the state.<\/p>\n
\nDr. Shadi Sabeh, said a total of 360 schools were assessed and that there
\nis need for the government to urgently act to restructure the imbalance in
\nteachers’ distribution especially between rural and urban areas.<\/p>\n
\nover-staffed within the Sokoto metropolis to the many that are lacking
\nteachers in rural areas,” he added.<\/p>\n
\nespecially because 73% of teachers surveyed lacked computer skills.<\/p>\n
\nthat all teachers must be registered with the Teachers Registration Council
\nof Nigeria (TRCN). At the moment, only 14 percent of the teachers have the
\nnecessary registration.<\/p>\n
\nbuilding program that will close the training gap among teachers in the
\nstate. This is against the backdrop that 90% of teachers surveyed have not
\nattended any form of training, workshop and seminar in the last three
\nyears” he stated.<\/p>\n
\nother measures will be put in place to ensure turn around in the fortunes
\nof the sector.<\/p>\n
\nensure all teachers are provided with opportunities for refresher courses.<\/p>\n
\nemploy. We will retrain them to update their knowledge. Those who at the
\nend prove untrainable will be moved to other parts of the civil service
\nwhere their expertise will be required.<\/p>\n
\npeople and government of Sokoto state will forever be proud of your
\nservice,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"