"States, Reps Praise NTI Over MGGs Education Funds" Stakeholders have upheld as transparent the use of Millennium Development Goals funds for development of education in country by National Teachers Institute (NTI). State commissioners of education and chairmen of Universal Basic Education Boards of the 36 states and FCT who are the beneficiaries made their stand known during the on Pre- 2013 MDGs activities at the NTI headquarters in Kaduna at the weekend. Also, House of Representatives committee on MDG Alhassan Ado Doguwa (PDP, Kano) has commended the NTI in themanner in which it spends MDGs funds. But he called for more to be done especially in areas of capacity building of teachers and other statutory responsibilities. He said the contribution of the institute in retraining of teachers has led to significant drop in the number of out-of-school children in the country. "NTI called for pre implementation seminar like this and after that, it also called for an assessment seminar. NTI always offers itself for public scrutiny," Doguwa said. Dr. Aminu Ladan Sharehu, the NTI Director General announced that the instituten plans to train over 10, 000 teachers nationwide. He said this is in line with the 2013 appropriation budget despite its financial constraint.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:48:19 +0000