1,300 Kaduna teachers fail
primary sch test : ‘Head
teachers, education secretaries
unqualified’
Category: Lead stories
Published on Friday, 15
February 2013 05:00
Written by Ismail
Mudashir,Kaduna
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Hajiya Ruqayyatu Rufai, Education
Minister
About 1300 teachers in Kaduna
have failed in tests generally set
for primary four pupils,
Commissioner for Education
Alhaji Usman Mohammed has
revealed.
He made the shocking disclosure
at an education summit tagged
“Education for all is responsibility
of all”, held at the Hassan Usman
Katsina House yesterday.
“A total of 1,599 teachers
selected from across the state
were given primary four tests in
Mathematics and Basic literacy.
Only one of them scored 75
percent, 250 scored between 50
to 75 percent and 1,300 scored
below 25 percent,” he said.
According to him, the same
examination was conducted for
1,800 primary school pupils but
that larger percent of them failed
woefully.
“We are not surprised about the
performance of the pupils
because how can they know it,
when their teachers don’t know
it,” he added.
The commissioner said larger
percentage of the head teachers
of the primary schools are not
competent, and also that majority
of the Education Secretaries of
local government areas are
appointed based on political
patronage hence their inability to
perform well.
In November last year, late
Governor Patrick Yakowa also
disclosed at the graduation
ceremony of the National
Teachers Institute, Kaduna, that a
verification exercise by the state
government had revealed no
fewer than 2,000 teachers with
fake certificates employed in
public schools.
Mohammed said the state has
established a quality assurance
board to evaluate and monitor
standard of education in the
state.
The chairman of the state House
of Assembly committee on
education Yunusa Mohammad
said out of the 36,000 teachers
in the state, 15,000 are not
qualified.
The chairman of the State
Universal Basic Education Ishaya
Dare Akau said for the rot in the
sector to be addressed, local
government chairmen must give
attention to the primary schools
sector.
“Theproblem we are facing
today is as a result of problems
in the education sector. The issue
of Boko Haram is one of it. Our
failure to train these youths is
making us to spend more money
on security. If you fail to spend
money on the education of the
children, one day you will spend
more money in buying bullets to
kill them,” he said.
In his address, Kaduna state
governor, Alhaji Mukhtar
Ramalan Yero said if need be, his
administration would declare a
state of emergency in the
education sector in order to
address the rot there in.
“Education is second to security
in the priorities of our
administration. So therefore, I
will not hesitate to declare state
of emergency on the sector to
address the rot. We need
practical not theoretical solution.
State government is investing
heavily on the education sector,”
he said.
The governor, while challenging
local government chairmen in the
state on training of primary
school teachers, stressed that for
the teachers to perform well,
they must be trained regularly.
“The teachers are yours; you
employed them, and promote
them when necessary. So, they
are yours. I urge you the local
government chairmen to look
critically at the workforce and try
to eliminate those that are not
qualified. If you allow the
situation to continue like this, the
sector will collapse,” he said.
Reacting to the survey, the
chairman of the Nigeria Union of
Teachers (NUT) in Kaduna,
Comrade Audu T. Amba said he
was not aware of the survey.
“I was supposed to be at the
summit but I could not make it. I
don’t know when, where and
how the survey was conducted.
Sometime last year, they came
out and said 18,000 teachers are
unqualified but how many
teachers do we have in the state?
Who employed the unqualified
teachers ? It is the same
government that employed them.
“If selfish interest is not removed
in recruitment, we will continue
to have the problem. If
government is complaining, who
do we blame? The government
should be blamed for it,” he said
in a telephone interview.
To improve the performance of
teachers, the Director-General of
National Teachers’ Institute (NTI),
Kaduna Dr, Aminu Ladan Sharehu
said teachers must be trained at
least thrice in year.
“Three things must be done to
enhance the capacity of teachers.

Lolz na ollodo full kaduna

na wa o

the state government(previous administrations) have a hand in the problem for trying to employ teachers that aren't competent to handle and teach the pupils, of course they should have undergone a screening processes.
Failing is not a big deal cos it is an exam. Everybody cant pass an exam now.

And they expect we corpers to teach pupils well?

Muhehehe . . .hahaha! Laughs in turkish and swahili
primary 4 exam ni? Hmmm, no wander the level of illetracy is high in the north!

Bluemosquito: illetracy

na only God talk say make you self no write the exam. If not, the failed teachers would have increased with a unit addition.

They should stick to their almajiri education.

and they are not ashamed just want more power and more money from the government.
kpalawo's

hehehehe! this reminds me of my days in secondary school in Zamfara state.I remember when i proved to a hausa teacher about a particular equation in Further Mathematics that he was wrong.Being a Maths guru myself,i had to teach the rest of the class that day.

At least that teacher has courage and is enlightened for him to teach Further Maths.

We are talking of failing Verbal and Quantitative Attitude
/Reasoning

berem: hehehehe! this reminds me of my days in secondary school in Zamfara state.I remember when i proved to a hausa teacher about a particular equation in Further Mathematics that he was wrong.Being a Maths guru myself,i had to teach the rest of the class that day.

Poor teacher = poor student

Product of quota system and federal character.
No wonder everything is backward in the north

ayswags: Lolz na ollodo full kaduna

hold it there jor, the hausas re the olodos, We hve kaduna south ãήϑ kaduna north, kaduna north is dominated by the hausas which re 95% empty headed goats, so don't generalize us, ask any1 Ɣøµ knw stayin in kaduna