PRESIDENT BUHARI NEEDS FURTHER EFFORTS TO COMPLIMENT TEACHERS SALARY SCALE IMPROVEMENT

Federal government improve Teachers salary across the country

PRESIDENT BUHARI NEEDS FURTHER EFFORTS TO COMPLIMENT TEACHERS SALARY SCALE IMPROVEMENT
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President Buhari on Tuesday announced a new packaged roll out fo teachers in commemoration of the world teachers day, his benevolent of the day was extending Nigerian teachers service year and age. His speech was delivered by the minister of education Mr Adamu Adamu, teachers have the power to shape and reshape the lives of young people and help learners to enhance their potentials.

Only great teachers can produce excellent people and students that will make the future of our country great. A positive or negative influence of a teacher on any child will have an effect on that child. Therefore the federal government is ensuring quality education to access,” his administration has resolved that quality education of teachers in terms of engagement of continued professional development has to be given more priority.

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The President have approved the following in order to attract investment in the teaching profession, the quality of the introduction of bursary award has been restored, there will be Special Salary Scale for Teachers in Basic and Secondary Schools, “including provisions for rural posting allowance, science teachers allowance and peculiar allowances. He also promised a special pension scheme to enable the teaching profession to retain its experienced talents as well as extend teachers retirement age to 65 years and the duration of teachers years to 40 years.

The Nigerian public educational system has been on a retrogressive journey for years now, and it rejuvenation is either now or never. It's uncanny to see the sector really need a rejig, it's also a good effort to pump finances into it, but the system actually need a inner resuscitation, apart from putting more money in the system, the internal structures which consists of the teachers that should've left the teaching profession a long time ago or some other who has no business venturing into teaching in the first place.

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The old staff who are partly responsible for the collapse of the system have built a structure to empower themselves, still remain in the system, teachers with obsolete teaching techniques, teachers owning multiple businesses thereby relegating his/her teaching profession to a second fiddle, important structure is needed to recruit fresh talent to revamp this part of the educational system.

To achieve excellence in revamping this sector, the federal government must borrow a leaf from the Kaduna State government, in handling the internal structure of teachers in Nigeria, The way the state government o fb Kaduna put teachers through microscopic scrutiny in the state is very applaudible, The old structure had to be removed to install a new one functionally in tuned with modern day educational system.