Osun Trains 5,000 Teachers Annually, Says Commissioner
Yinka Kolawole
Osun State Government said it has embarked on the training of 5,000 teachers annually as part of its programmes to enhance capacity in the education sector.
According to the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Adelani Baderinwa, the teachers are being trained in Mathematics for teachers and ICT training for school leaders (head masters and principals).
Baderinwa, who stated this while delivering a lecture at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) state information chapel programme, added: “Osun government trains 5,000 teachers on an annual basis out of the workforce of 15,000. This means that in three years, all the teachers have benefited from one training or the other according to the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).”
He said the government has taken tangible measures to ease the work of teachers in the basic education system and has built ICT centres in the modern schools all over the state to train teachers periodically. He added that the state has recruited more teachers to fill up the shortage caused by death and retirement while effort is ongoing to ensure that vacancies are filled by systematic recruitment of more teachers to suit the efforts at rejuvenating the education sector.
The commissioner disclosed that the Aregbesola administration has made a huge investment in schools infrastructure with a view to enhance the learning environment which is critical to the well-being and totality of education.
“The effort of the government in bringing education back to the enviable position is by re-inventing vibrant human resources in education and ensure good environment for teaching and learning.”
Baderinwa said the Aregbesola administration has upped its game in promoting the education system in the state by making the Tablet of Knowledge (Opon Imo) to make learning easier.
He called for more support and understanding of stakeholders in the avowed steps of the Aregbesola administration to improve education standard through vigorous human and infrastructure development which he said will bring happiness soon.
The commissioner expressed delight that the dividends of the government’s efforts are already manifesting with the improvement in the results of school certificate examinations, which over the years has increased by over 200 per cent, while many more secondary school leavers qualified and are admitted into higher institutions.