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| Hajiya Ruqayyatu Rufai, Education Minister |
About 1300 teachers in Kaduna have
failed in tests generally set for primary four pupils, Commissioner for
Education Alhaji Usman Mohammed has revealed.
He made the shocking disclosure at an
education summit tagged “Education for all is responsibility of all”,
held at the Hassan Usman Katsina House .
“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, 250 scored between
50 to 75 percent and 1,300 scored below 25 percent,” he said.
According to him, the same examination
was conducted for 1,800 primary school pupils but that larger percent
of them failed woefully.
“We are not surprised about the
performance of the pupils because how can they know it, when their
teachers don’t know it,” he added.
To improve
the performance of teachers, the Director-General of National Teachers’
Institute (NTI), Kaduna Dr, Aminu Ladan Sharehu said teachers must be
trained at least thrice in year.
“Three things must be done to enhance
the capacity of teachers. One, there must be continued capacity training
of teachers at least thrice a year. Two, teachers should be encouraged
to upgrade and update their academic qualification and thirdly, the
welfare and remunerations of teachers should be enhanced,” he said.
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