Osun State Government Recruits 8,554 Personnel Into The Teaching Service

Osun State government has recruited new 8,554 personnel into the teaching service for primary and secondary schools in the state.

The deputy governor of the state, Titilayo Laoye-Tomori who disclosed this in Osogbo while declaring open a 5-day orientation workshop for the newly recruited Osun State Teaching Corps, said that the workshop was meant to intimate the corps to strive to create a learning environment that nurture the fulfilment of the potentials of students.

According to her, 5,400 of the teaching corps were taken from the Osun Youths Empowerment Scheme (OYES) volunteers, while the remaining 3,154 of the corps were taken from the former Oyin Corps and Parents Teachers Association (PTA) teachers.

She added that as part of the efforts of the government to fulfil its promise of overhauling the education sector, the state government has provided exercise books and instructional materials worth ₦114 million, saying that the administration of Rauf Aregbesola would not relent in its efforts to overhaul the education sector in the state.

Mrs Laoye-Tomori also noted that construction of model schools had been kick-started in all the three senatorial districts of the state, insisting that education sector under the present administration would witness a pragmatic turn around, just as the image of public schools would be redeemed.

She recalled that the present administration inherited an educational system that was largely inundated with problems ranging from dearth of teaching personnel, poor infrastructure facilities and a host of other militating factors that have contributed to the acute disintegration in the sector.

Explaining the significance of the workshop, she said that it was imperative to ensure that the students are adequately prepared for the external and internal examination, especially now that the students are preparing for the forthcoming WASSCE and NECO examination.

She added that the training workshop was also to expose the corps to the rudiments of the teaching profession, the principles and practice of the discipline and the acceptable ethical standard expected of them, imploring the trainees to pay specific attentions to all details of the training.

While calling on the trainees to be role models with exemplary qualities to be emulated by students under their cares, she charged them not to encourage the students into nefarious activities like cultism, examination malpractice, fraud, cheating, stealing and improper dressing among others.

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