The Kaduna State Government has announced its readiness to recruit 10,000 teachers to address the deficit in public schools in the state.

The Kaduna State Commissioner of Education, Prof. Mohammed Bello, said this at a meeting on findings and lessons learnt from the study on the implementation of the teacher recruitment, deployment, and retention policy in Kaduna on Friday, February 16, 2024.

Bello, who was represented by the ministry’s Director of Planning, Salisu Lawal, said the ministry has an updated annual school census, which reflects schools with shortage of teachers.

The commissioner noted that the state would, in collaboration with its agencies, work together to improve the deployment and retention of teachers in conflict-affected areas.

Bello, however, said the ministry had earlier proffered solutions to some of the challenges identified in its public schools, which included the use of digital learning.

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He said the ministry has discovered a long-time solution to address the issues of teachers leaving the rural areas for obvious reasons.

Speaking on insecurity in the rural areas which led to the closure of many schools, the commissioner said the ministry was supported by UNICEF to train teachers on early warning signs of insecurity.

He said: “We have trained a number of teachers and students on how to behave when they perceive anything that has to do with insecurity.

“The state government is also doing its best in collaboration with the Federal Government to provide military personnel around schools in identified LGAs so as to improve their security for better learning.”

Speaking at the meeting, a Senior Education Specialist with Oxford Policy Management, Joy Oballum, said the meeting was aimed at reviewing a recent research on teacher recruitment, deployment, and retention policy in Kaduna state.

She stressed that the organisation’s mission was to understand the ongoing implementation of the policy that became effective in Kaduna State in 2019 on the recruitment, deployment, and retention.

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