Kaduna State Governor Nasir Ahmad
el-Rufai has boasted that the state has secured a major victory for public
education, defeating an indefinite strike by the Nigerian Union of Teachers,
NUT, without recalling any of the sacked teachers.
In his first public reaction to
the collapse of the NUT strike, Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai said that there
was no time to dwell in the euphoria of removing trade union obstacle to better
standards in the education sector.
Governor El-Rufai made the
expression in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and
Publicity, Samuel Aruwan, at a meeting with the 23 local government
administrators and their Education Secretaries.
He said that the focus must now
be on implementing the education reforms in a way that upholds standards and
improves the welfare of teachers.
At the meeting, SUBEB reaffirmed
plans for the first batch of new teachers to be appointed by February, 2018,
pointing out that interviews for applicants who passed the recruitment test
conducted on 20th December 2017 would commence on Wednesday, 24th January 2018.
The interviews according to the
statement would be conducted across the 23 local government areas by panels
comprising experienced personnel from the Teacher Development Programme and
other professionals.
The governor disclosed that the
Education Reforms in the state required that a commitment to standards be
sustained and new incentives provided for teachers.
Among the incentives would be a
new salary scale for teachers and provision of houses for teachers posted to
rural schools.
El-Rufai observed that the
difficulty in securing decent accommodation in rural areas had led to an
over-concentration of teachers in urban centres, stressing that the Ministry of
Education would provide designs for construction buildings with at least six
flats for teachers and a bungalow for head-teachers in rural schools.
On education standards, he said
that a law has been passed to establish the Quality Assurance Board to uphold
standards in schools, while the state university, KASU has been directed to
establish an Institute of Education to provide continuous training for
teachers.
He further said that the current
recruitment exercise would prioritise teachers of English, Mathematics and the
Sciences.
To expand the production of such
teachers, the governor disclosed that the College of Education, Gidan-Waya
would adjust its curriculum so that most of its products are trained in Primary
Education Studies, Mathematics, English and the Sciences.
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