Nigeria: 12,000 Teachers Unfit to Teach in Bauchi - Subeb Chairman
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Leadership (Abuja)
10 October 2008
Posted to the web 10 October 2008
The Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) says more than 12,000 of its 16,000 primary school teachers are unfit to teach.
The Chairman of the board, Alhaji Abdullahi Dabo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Bauchi that the affected teachers lacked the basic minimum qualification for teaching in public/private primary schools.
"As at today, only 4,000 out of the 16,000 primary school teachers in the state
possessed the National Certificate in Education (NCE), being the minimum teaching qualification in Nigeria ," he said.
Dabo said to reverse the ugly trend, the board had commenced a certificate verification exercise for all categories of primary school teachers in public schools.
"The show-your-certificate exercise is already in progress, and I am personally in charge of the initiative, to ensure that it is not sabotaged.
"The objective is to determine that only qualified teachers are allowed to teach," he added.
Dabo said the unqualified teachers would be sent on training, in order to assist them to make up for their deficiencies, while those considered unfit would be eased out.
He declared: "We are already in the process of converting the Bauchi Unity College into a pivotal training institute, as part of measures to enhance the standard of teaching in the state.
"The scheme will entail a six-month intensive training for all the unqualified teachers.
"The successful trainees will be absorbed into a two-year intensive NCE training programme, under the Federal Government's Special Teacher Upgrading Programme."
Dabo, however, warned that the board would not hesitate to dismiss any primary school teacher found wanting in the discharge of his official responsibility.
The state government, he said, through the board, would continue to evolve measures aimed at enhancing the welfare of its teachers.
"Non challant and erring teachers will be adequately sanctioned in accordance with the teaching ethics.
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"Holders of NCE and degree certificates will be encouraged and supported, to enhance their teaching skills through seminars and workshops," he said. (NAN)"
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