Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, in a keynote address at the 60th National Council of Education has identified lack of skilled Mathematics and English Language teachers as one of the reasons why pupils performed woefully in 2014 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations.

Of the 1.7million candidates who sat for this year’s WASSCE, only 529,425 obtained credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics, The Punch reports.

This implies that about one million pupils will not secure university admission in the country this year.

“There is no doubt that we have several challenges, among them, the non-availability of skilled teachers of Mathematics and English Language.

“As part of the efforts to support quality education outcome, the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council has introduced e-curriculum, which I inaugurated in September. It would ensure that teachers, learners and other relevant stakeholders have easy online access to the prescribed national curriculum in all subjects," he said.

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I didn't read the post, but lemme just say that when I have kids of my own, I'll never send them to a school that has corpers as teachers!

Now lemme go and read the post

Hmmm! There's no point arguing over this matter. . .


...cos its quite obvious that the characters of children in most Primary and Secondary schools are all shaped by their teacher(s). . .