Teachers in Ondo State have expressed gratitude to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, as thousands of teachers in the Master Cadre in the teaching profession completed a refresher course organized by the Public Service Training Institute, PSTI, Ilara Mokin, Ifedore LGA in Ondo State.
A review of government activities monitored by Toba Nesta Taiwo for NewsRader, an online news organization, showed that thousands of teachers, recently, completed a refresher course in the State.
In the submission of some of the teachers, the time and energy expended on the course were not wasted the course served as a kind of reawakening and motivation to the teaching and learning process in the school system.
As part of ways to uplift the teaching and learning process in schools in the State, the Permanent Secretary in the Teaching Service Commission, TESCOM, Ondo State, Mrs Tolu Adeyemi, directed teachers to attend the course to equip them with more of the required knowledge needed to bring to pass the millennium goals set for education in the State.
Consequent upon a telephone interview with the Permanent Secretary, NewsRader reported that the Teaching Service Commission, TESCOM, constantly, monitored the programme, which was the maiden edition, from inception to completion.
The report quoted her to have said that the Commission had yet to receive a full report on the conduct of the course by and the attendance by teachers.
The Permanent Secretary said he was grateful to God that the exercise took place without a hitch or glitch.
Mrs Adeyemi expressed her gratitude to the governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, for granting the proposal sent to his office via the office of the Honourable Commissioner for Education, Pastor Femi Agagu.
Mrs Adeyemi said that the type of teaching and learning techniques operated by education professionals in the State, in the present day, could not be found in any other state in the country.
According to her: “this is the main reason for the participation of the teachers in the refresher course to comply with the directives of the governor who has, at many times, charged stakeholders in the education sector to make the school system in the State second to none in the country.”
Recall that the State Government had recently approved promotion to Grade Level 16 for primary school teachers as part of ways to improve the performance of teachers in schools.
One of the campaign promises made by the governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu SAN, during the election into his second term in office, was the payment of WAEC fees for final year students in secondary schools which the governor had fulfilled.
She said the ruling APC government in the State had commenced payment for the WAEC fees of students in secondary schools in the state since the past two years and, recently, approved the sum of N523 million for the payment of WAEC registration fee for students in the state.
The Akeredolu administration carried out a lot of renovation work in schools in the state as new school buildings were built and the existing old ones were upgraded.
The Permanent Secretary congratulated the teachers and promised that the Teaching Service Commission, TESCOM, would not relent in its efforts to keep pushing for quality education delivered to the people of the State in line with the directives of Mr Governor.
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