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Why we recruited more teachers –Oyetola

From Fisayo Akinduro,
Osogbo

Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola said his administration’s desire to recruit more teachers was aimed at bridging inherited staffing gaps and produce globally-competitive students who will be assets to the State’s sustainable educational development goals.

He said the State was pleased under his watch to recruit the brightest of the best and deploy them to primary and secondary schools across the State to give the children quality education with the ultimate objective of building a solid foundation for the transformation of the sectors and the State.

Oyetola who noted that his administration has given education the prime place as the driver of its Development Agenda and the tool for achieving sustainable development, disclosed that workable strategies have been put in place to achieve the laudable objectives.

This is even as the leadership of the teachers in the State, lauded the Governor for prioritising education sector and making it the driving-force to enhance socioeconomic and infrastructural developments of the State.

Oyetola spoke while declaring open, the pre-engagement training programme for the newly-recruited 1, 000 Osun teachers, at Ataoja School of Science, Osogbo.

The programme which was organised by the Ministry of Education was designed  to train the new teachers and integrate them into the tradition of teaching and educational excellence.

Addressing the people on the occasion, Governor Oyetola said his Administration has been providing adequate, affordable, quality, equitable, well-rounded and functional education for the students to enable them to contribute their quota to the development of the State and to earn their place in the world’s education space.

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Enumerating some of the modest achievements recorded by the Administration in the education sector in the last three years, Oyetola said progressive improvement has been made for students in the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

He said the State had recorded progressive improvement and upped the performance from what it met in 2018 from 46.30 per cent credit pass in five subjects including Mathematics and English to 59.35 per cent in 2019 and 59.68 per cent in 2020, despite the challenges of the Covid-19 lockdown.

He congratulated the newly-recruited teachers for coming into the fold of well-trained and hard working teachers in the State, just as he implored them to bring conventional requirements of diligence, discipline, hard work and commitment to bear on their job, saying, they will also have to tap on their creativity and innovation.

In his welcome address, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr. Jamiu Olawumi, applauded the Governor for the rare opportunity created for the young graduates to secure employment in the State, describing the gesture as most appreciative and rewarding.

Olawumi who explained the rationale behind the employment of new hands into teaching profession in the State Civil Service, noted that with the recruitment of 1000 as first phase, the teaching fortune would experience drastic improvement.

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