Friday, July 19, 2013

Plateau to Sack 9,000 Teachers

Jos — The Plateau State government on Wednesday said plans are underway to sack 9,000 teachers. This is coming shortly after the state sacked over 2,000 primary school teachers, it was gathered.
The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Abraham Yiljab, said the Jang administration was concerned about the quality of education in public schools.
Yiljap said the governor, had while presenting his mid-term report stated that the state government would sack a total of 11,000 unqualified teachers, and that 2, 000 have already been sacked.
While expressing the need to flush out quacks and certificate forgery among teachers, he disclosed that recent investigation showed that out of the 1,291 teachers who claimed to have graduated from Federal College of Education Gindiri, only eight were on the school's graduation list.

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