Nigerian education graduates, students to get automatic employment, stipends — Minister

The payment of stipends to Bachelor of Education students as well as granting them automatic employment after graduation is now a federal government policy, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has said.

He said this in Abuja at the commemoration of the World Teachers Day on Monday.

President Muhammadu Buhari has also approved a special salary scale for teachers in the country.

He also increased the number of years of service from 35 to 40.

The education minister, Mr Adamu, who represented President Buhari, said the implementation of the new salary scheme was to encourage teachers in delivering better service.

The 2020 theme of the World Teachers’ Day is Teachers: leading in crisis, reimagining the future.

He said 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,” he said.

Mr Buhari also said his administration has resolved that quality education of teachers in terms of engagement of continued professional development has to be given priority.

“To address these challenges, my administration has approved the following for teachers and the teaching profession. That in order to attract investment in the teaching profession, the quality of the introduction of bursary award has been restored,” he said.

Promises

He said there will be 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.

“My administrative has resolved that quality education of teachers in terms of engagement of continued professional development has to be given priority,” he said.

He said there will be Special Salary Scale for Teachers in Basic and Secondary Schools, “including provisions for rural posting allowance, science teachers allowance and peculiar allowance”.

Other promises include building low-cost housing for teachers in rural areas, sponsorship to at least one refresher training per annum to benchmark best practices for improved teaching and learning.

“Expansion of the annual Presidential Teachers and Schools Awards to cover more categories and for the outstanding,” he said.

Mr Buhari said he has approved the reintroduction of bursary award to education students in Universities and Colleges of Education with the assurance of automatic employment upon graduation.

“The payment of stipends to Bachelor of Education students as well as granting them automatic employment after graduation is now a government policy,” he said.

He said the Tertiary Education Fund (TETFUND) will now fund teaching practice in Universities and Colleges of Education.

Similarly, the Minister of State for Education, Chukuemeka Nwajuiba, identified the teaching profession as the greatest profession in the world which must be accorded adequate recognition and respect.

”In those days, very comfortable and important figures in the society would send their children to a teacher’s house for grooming. That was the teacher then,” he said.

According to him, teachers children and those that lived with them became “the crème de la crème of the society. The society sadly has tilted towards ephemeral appearances that negate the standard of teachers as role models.”

”We think this should stop. Teachers deserve recognition and respect. The first step is to have qualified teachers in practice.”

He said the education ministry through the Teachers Registration Council (TRCN) is making concerted efforts to withdraw unqualified teachers from the classroom nationwide.

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Lolzzzz... Ppl wey neva fit employ more or retain old N-power teachers want to employ and pay stipends to Edu graduates? ;

Audio negros, foolish government.

Wow!

Is it PMB or Buhari? This one is Sakamajay!

Ensure all states pay minimum wage first,

Ensure you pay up all empower debts,

Ensure you end SARS

Ensure you settle ASUU

Ensure exchange rate is reduce


Biko, I now have ORIGINAL HAIR GROWTH OIL

message for business only!

Plssssss Lagos only!

Lol.....them want scope us small as them see say we dey vex. ..


Marlians Ema foor o ....Once a marlian always Marlians

IF I PERISH .......I PERISH

Some kind of News are too good to be true in Nigeria.

Ok

Good policy...

Kaaaiiii... Biko don't raise graduates hope, just help the teachers then import more foreign rice let the price go back to #7,500; we don't mind you steal the whole money we have, borrow more and steal all no wahala

Another joke? Wey una never fit pay minimum wage

A..nimal ta..lki

Hoojay:
Wow!

American government wouldn't try this.

This government dey use una catch cruise sha.
Them never pay people wey dem dey owe na fresh graduates.

The kind things wey dey happen for this country go dey shock devil sef

We know how all these promises/policies end up.
On paper = 100%
Realistic implementation = 0%

Fake news, deceptive news

Believe dis govt at your own peril.dsame govt dat said dey will make 1dollar=1naira,dsame govt dat promised 3millions jobs within 6months,dsame govt dat promised constant power supply within 6months if elected,dsame govt dat said bokom haram will b a tin of the pass etc

Way to go!

That's commendable

�����but shey una know say e no go happen

Okada stop me here

Oya give me change

A good one if they can keep to their words

By-Mouth System of Government.


This administration has collapsed irredeemably.
Am sure they will have to borrow money to achieve this one

Nbotee:
Lolzzzz... Ppl wey neva fit employ more or retain old N-power teachers want to employ and pay stipends to Edu graduates? ;

The thing taya me o, boss


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What an audio government.

I no sure this man no weti he they talk, this kind news too strong for this fed government

Nah this ain't it. Lol

Will it work?

Let them screen them well, please; not all of them have good heads on their shoulders

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