The Kaduna State
Government on Thursday said it has increased the salary of public school
teachers by 32.5 per cent.
The state Commissioner
for Education, Science and Technology, Ja’afaru Sani, said at a news conference
in Kaduna that 27.5 per cent would be added to all the teachers, while five per
cent was incentive for teachers posted rural areas.
According to Sani,
while head teachers would be entitled to three-bedroom accommodation, other
teachers would have two-bedrooms flats in addition to motorcycles to ease their
transportation challenges to schools.
According to him, the
measure becomes necessary to retain qualified and professional teachers posted
to rural areas.
Sani said: “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.’’
Sani said the State
Universal Basic Education Board would post the first batch of 10,000 newly
recruited teachers to primary schools within the next two weeks.
He assured of the
state government resolved to ensure quality and standard in teaching and
learning in schools across the state.
He said: “The
El-Rufa’i led-administration strongly believes that only access to affordable
and quality education will ensure social mobility for children of the poor.
“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.”
The commissioner
maintained that the state public schools would no longer be dumping ground for
those seeking employment through political patronage.
On the replacement of
the sacked 22,000 teachers, Sani said selection of the first batch of 10,000
teachers for posting across the 23 local government areas was in the final
stage.
The commissioner
explained that 36,097 applicants sat for the recruitment examination, which was
marked at NTI by lecturers of Federal College of Education, Zaria and Kaduna
State College of Education, Gidan Waya.
Given further details,
SUBEB Chairman, Nasiru Umar, said: “Data entries and data analysis were made
and we have released the names of the shortlisted candidates of 24,979
applicants as placed at the 23 LGA offices and SUBEB headquarters.”
Umar said five-man
committees for each of the 36 centres were set for the oral interview, which
included representative of Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria and
Education Data Research and Evaluation in Nigeria.
Others included in the
exercise were the Teachers Registration Council, State Teachers Service Board,
Civil Service Commission and seasoned educationists in the state.
The official said the
oral interview covered General Knowledge, Personal Trait, Reading/ Writing,
Comprehension and Self Expression.
He said the exercise
was monitored by Governor Nasiru El-Rufai and relevant officials.
Umar further said Data
entry was ongoing, to be followed by data analysis, after which a technical
committee would select the successful candidates to be vetted by the main
committee.
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