Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State on Monday, January 29, disclosed that Eighty percent of teachers in the are not qualified and would fail an aptitude test.
He said this in his speech at the opening ceremony of a conference to review the minimum standards of the National Certificate of Education (NCE).
Al-Makura said government had carried out some research and found that most primary and secondary school teachers should not be in the classes.
Al-Makura, who was represented by Aliyu Tijjani Ahmed, commissioner for education, however, said government would not conduct a test on the teachers.
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“We are not planning a test for the teachers; we only intend to train and retrain them so as to build their capacities for better service delivery,” he said.
He appealed to the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), and other stakeholders to step-up supervision in order to save the sector from total collapse.
The governor advised the reviewers to pay special attention to technical education and entrepreneurship to make NCE graduates more attractive to employers of labour.
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