Ogun To Employ 5,000 Teachers

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Ogun to employ teachers<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> reports that the Chairman&comma; Ogun State Teaching Service Commission &lpar;TESCOM&rpar;&comma; Evangelist Olalekan Ifede&comma; has said that the State government would employ no fewer than five thousand graduates with educational background to impart knowledge into pupils&sol;students across the State to herald new academic momentum&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ifede made this known while responding to a Television programme anchored in a Yoruba&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Oju Koro&&num;8221&semi; in Ogun State Television &lpar;OGTV&rpar;&comma; Idi-Aba&comma; Abeokuta&comma; the State capital&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ifede stated that his board on assumption to the office devised a strategy to visit schools unexpectedly&comma; based on the dwindling academic standard in the state&comma; noting that the urgency was to revive academic standards to achieve accelerated academic goals &period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He added that many schools are deprived of quality and adequate <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">teachers<&sol;a> which gave birth to the experience of employing new teachers&comma; tagged &&num;8220&semi;Ogun teach&&num;8221&semi;&comma; that would impart knowledge for two consecutive years before they could be considered as full staff&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We have made a unilateral decision to employ teachers with maximum education potentials to allow education to thrive in the state&&num;8221&semi;&comma; Ifede said<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ifede advised education stakeholders to involve Old Student Associations&comma; Communities&comma; and Parents to execute projects that would advance education in the state&comma; saying that this would assist the Government in its ongoing transformation&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He then commended the present administration for its determination to revive the educational system of the State&comma; which he said is already gaining momentum&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;