The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has disclosed that about forty per cent of public school teachers in the state are not qualified to teach.
The governor noted that it has affected the academic performance of pupils and students in primary and secondary schools across the state, an investigation by Channels Television revealed that over one million children attend these schools.
He revealed his plans to train teachers in public school, ongoing renovation of public and secondary school and introduction of free feeding during school hours, among other measures
Over 5, 000 illegal private schools are operating in Kaduna, a state known as the Centre of Learning.
Many of them operate in makeshift structures such as residential homes and religious institutions.
Majority of these institutions are neighbourhood ‘nursery-primary’ schools operated illegally by sole proprietors with little or no regulation from the State Ministry of Education.
Governor El-Rufai, while receiving a $21 million education grant from the World Bank recently, said that the state of infrastructure and manpower in public schools are in total disrepair.
The government will provide substantial school development plan for teachers to access high quality professional development.
It is expected that as public schools improve, there will undoubtedly be a measure of school shifting.
.....Channels TV