HAVE U COLLECTED UR APPOINTMENT LETTER? The Rivers State Government is to spend N1billion monthly as salaries for the newly recruited 13,000 teachers. The 13,000 teachers made up of both indigenes and non-indigenes were presented with their appointment letters last week Wednesday in Port Harcourt. The state Governor, Rt Hon Chibuike Amaechi said that the teachers appointment was part of the moves by the present administration to ensure quality education in the state. The governor, who was represented by the Commissioner for Education, Dame Alice Lawrence- Nemi while playing host to a delegation from UNESCO, commended the governor for giving much attention to the educational development of the state. She said that UNESCO would assist the government to undertake an assessment of the number of children that are out of school. “Not that the Ministry of Education did not know the figures but we want professionals to make their assessment and tell us particularly, how Nigerians are jittery that about 10.5million children are out of school. “And at the same time, every state is fighting hard to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), she said. Dame Nemi also said that induction course shall commence for the newly recruited teachers pointing out that they shall be sent to the classrooms for training and would be deployed by September, to both junior and senior secondary schools. She urged the new teachers to be committed to their assignment and professional calling towards ensuring quality education in the state. The commissioner said that the 13,000 teachers will reduce the burden of teachers in several subjects at a time when in actual sense, they were meant to teach only one subject each. She also revealed that 90% of those recruited were indigenes while 10% were non indigenes. The commissioner also said that 9,000 of the existing teachers have been retrained in a special programme with the British council.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 03:08:05 +0000
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