Oyo Govt Trains 5000 Newly-recruited Teachers, Others

The Chairman, Oyo State Post-Primary Teaching
Service Commission, Hon Akinade Alamu has
disclosed that examination malpractice in
schools has been stamped out in the State, as the 5000 newly-recruited teachers and 700 were trained on working ethics and conducts among other areas, as part of induction exercise approved for the teachers.

He said this while declaring open a two-day
Induction and Training Programme for the newly-
recruited and converted teachers on Monday at
Ansar-Deen Grammar School, Sango, Saki, Saki
West Local Government.

Alamu stated that reports coming from the schools the newly-recruited teachers were posted showed that they have been performing more
than expected, an achievement he attributed to
the rigorous academic standards set for their
recruitment.

It was ealier reported that about 400 of the applicants for the
teaching appointment were first class graduates
from universities in Nigeria, while the cut-off mark for selection of successful applicants was
pegged at 50% (fifty percent).

“We have achieved what many administrations
before the advent of Governor Seyi Makinde
could not achieve, today I can tell you that apart
from an upward curve in performance chat of our students in internal and external examinations,
the evil effects of exams malpractice is no more,
as we have stamped out the bad habit.

“This was achieved through the provision of
required teaching and learning inputs and encouraging welfare package for the teachers,
while students today have access to books,
science equipments and good learning
environment.

“The aim of this training is to ensure that students performance in WAEC and NECO
examinations match government investment on
education, we believe that in line with the national
policy on education declaration 2006, which states that no education system can rise above
the quality of teachers in the system.

“There is need to focus on teachers’ adequacy
and competence since the success of students
will always depend largely on the amount of
learning that take place in the classrooms, I
appeal to all participants to make the best use
of the opportunity provided by this training exercise.”

The TESCOM Chairman informed the gathering
that the State government has recently approved
the establishment of four new zonal offices for the State, out of which two would be at the Oke-
Ogun area of the State.

He added that the implication of the new zonal
offices was that four new Permanent Secretaries
would be appointed.
Also at the training was the Chairman, Saki West
Local Government, Engr. Sarafadeen Omirinde,
the Full-Time Member of Board of TESCOM,
Alhaji Mudasiru Awujoola, Part-Time Board Member, Hon. Akeem Olalekan, representative of
the State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), who is the Chairman Saki West NUT, Alhaji Mikhail Adedoyin and the Oke-Ogun Zone
1 Chairman of the All Nigeria Conference of
Principals of Secondary School (ANCOPPS).