Latest Educational News reaching us today is that more than One Thousand, Three Hundred (1,300) teachers in Kaduna State have failed a tests which is generally set for primary four pupils, also known as Basic 4.
The Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Usman Mohammed has revealed yesterday.
The Commissioner made this shocking disclosure at an education summit which was titled:
Education for all is responsibility of all.
The location which the programme was held is at the Hassan Usman Katsina House yesterday.
According to the Commissioner,
“A total of 1,599 teachers selected from across the state were given primary four tests in Mathematics and Basic literacy.
Only one of them scored 75 percent, while a whooping sum of 250 scored between 50 to 75 percent and 1,300 scored below 25 percent, he reviewed.
According to the commissioner, the same examination was conducted for 1,800 primary school pupils but that a larger percent of the students failed the examination woefully.
He further said this:
“We are not surprised about the performance of the pupils because how can they know it, when their teachers can’t even know the correct answer?,” he said.
The commissioner also said that a larger percentage of the head teachers of the primary schools are not competent, and also that majority of the Education Secretaries of the local government areas are appointed based on their political patronage, which has cripple the state educational system and also featured in their inability to perform well.
According to him, in November 2012, late Governor Patrick Yakowa also disclosed at the graduation ceremony of the National Teachers Institute, Kaduna, that a verification exercise by the state government had revealed no fewer than 2,000 teachers with fake certificates employed in public schools.
Mr Mohammed also said that the state has established a quality assurance board to evaluate and monitor standard of education in the state.
While the chairman of the state House of Assembly committee on education, Mr Yunusa Mohammad said that out of the 36,000 teachers in the state, 15,000 are not qualified, which is a full 50%.
While the chairman of the State Universal Basic Education, Ishaya Dare Akau said for the rot in the sector to be addressed, local government chairmen must give their complete full attention to the primary schools sector.
According to him, the problem we are facing today is as a result of problems in the education sector.
The issue of Boko Haram is troubling.
Our failure to train these youths is making us to spend more money on security.
If you fail to spend money on the education of the children, one day you will spend more money in buying bullets to kill them,” he said.
Which we, at Dailyschoolnews, wishes to affirm his quotation.
If you fail to spend money on the education of the children, one day you will spend more money in buying bullets to kill them.
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