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  • Plateau SUBEB promises special allowances for teachers in rural areas

    The Plateau State Universal Basic Education Board ( SUBEB ) has pledged to pay special allowances to teachers posted to rural areas of the state to enhance their productivity.

    The Executive Chairman of the board, Prof Mathew Sule, made the promise on Friday in Jos during the distribution of some Hilux vans procured by the board to the 17 Local Government Areas.

    The board procured the vehicles to facilitate effective monitoring of schools in the state.

    According to Sule, the payment of the allowance is aimed at attracting manpower to the rural areas and retaining them to serve the children who are eager to have better lives.

    He said that the proposal, when implemented, would suppress the quest of teachers in rural communities to seek transfer to the urban areas.

    The chairman said that the difficult terrains in rural areas impeded the board’s monitoring and supervisory roles.

    He noted that some teachers in such areas often shut down schools to attend social functions like burial and marriage ceremonies at the detriment of the pupils.

    Sule said the vehicles would ensure effective monitoring of the teachers for them to perform their duties and address the academic disparities between rural and urban schools.

    “The 17 Education Secretaries are expected to visit all schools in their respective local government areas, at least, on a weekly basis,’’ he said.

    In his remarks, Gov. Simon Lalong said the vehicles would help improve the quality of primary education was the foundation for quality learning.

    Lalong, represented by his Deputy, Prof. Sonni Tyoden, said it would also reduce the tendency by some school children to be out of school.

    The governor decried the encroachment on school lands by some individuals, groups and communities and said that government was addressing the issue through boundary demarcation.

    He said that the state government had paid its counterpart fund to the Universal Basic Education Commission for the 2014/2016 session.

    He said with the payment of the counterpart fund, the state had procured plastic furniture while 411 blocks of classrooms were either constructed or renovated.

    Mr Waziri Azi, the Chairman of the Education Secretaries Forum in Plateau, said the vehicles would be properly utilised for the discharge of their duties.

    NAN

  • Plateau recruits 5,253 teachers to enhance quality education

    Plateau recruits 5,253 teachers to enhance quality education

    The Plateau Government on Thursday said it had recruited 5,253 ad hoc teachers as part of efforts to address shortage of teachers in the state.

    The Executive Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board ( SUBEB ), Prof Mathew Sule, disclosed this while fielding questions in Jos.

    Sule said the state government had also trained more than 700 teachers to enhance their capacity and to provide quality education.

    The chairman said the deficit and quality of teachers in public primary and Junior Secondary schools had been a major concern to the government.

    “We visited some primary schools and discovered that many of the pupils in the senior classes cannot read or write.

    “As part of efforts to address the situation, SUBEB organised a three-day training in March on ‘Jolly phonics’ for 700 teachers across the state,” he said.

    NAN

  • Plateau constructs model primary schools

    Plateau constructs model primary schools

    Plateau State Government will construct a model primary school in each of the 17 Local Government Areas of the state to reposition basic education, an official said on Tuesday.

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    “It is to facilitate access to quality education at the grassroots”, Prof. Mathew Sule, Executive Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos.

    He further added that the schools would serve as models operating and maintaining the ideals, values and enduring legacies of secondary education and admitting students will be based strictly on merit.

    The executive chairman said that the four model Girls Junior Secondary Schools already constructed and furnished by the Universal Basic Education Commission had commenced academic activities since October 2016.

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    “The Junior Girls Model Secondary Schools are in Kanam, Mikang, Bassa and Barkin-Ladi LGAs,” he said.

    Sule confirmed that the board in collaboration with Federal Government has implemented the Home Grown Feeding Programme for children in primary one to three across the state.

    “The School Feeding Programme is meant to feed more than 200, 000 children in Plateau; it has engaged more than four thousand food vendors, thus creating job opportunities.

    “The board also developed and deployed a Central Unified General School Time Table for use in all the public primary schools with timeline for continuous assessment, examinations and midterm break,” he said.

    The executive chairman explained that aside from enhancing uniformity among schools, the time table would also provide for effective monitoring and for assessing teachers and pupils’ performance.

    “2,500 scroll-up school time tables were distributed to primary schools across 17 LGAs and 16,700 laminated timetables distributed for use in their classes,” he added.

  • PLSG inaugurates 285 classes in primary and junior secondary schools

    The Plateau State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has inaugurated 285 newly constructed classes in primary and junior secondary schools, as part of efforts to improve the quality of education.

    Prof. Mathew Sule, SUBEB Executive Chairman, while inaugurating some of the classes in schools located in the Northern Senatorial Zone, on Thursday, said that government was out to “balance quality and quantity”.

    “We want to improve access to education without compromising quality,” he said.

    The chairman said that adequate facilities were being provided to schools to improve the learning environment, and admonished teachers to always put in their best.

    He said that the Plateau government had provided the counterpart funding required for the renovation of some dilapidated schools, adding that work had reached 85 per cent completion in some of the renovation projects.

    Assemblyman Abdul Yanga, Chairman, House Committee on Education, in a brief speech at the inauguration of one of the schools in Jos, cautioned contractors against compromising  quality.

    “We have received reports that some contractors have abandoned projects they were handling. We find this unacceptable.

    “Our commitment to educational growth is total. We shall accept no excuses,” he said.

    He said that the legislators would soon embark on the inspection of such projects as part of their oversight functions, and warned that those founding wanting would not be spared.

    Mr Abok Izang, the Education Secretary of Jos South Local Government, in his remarks, advised teachers to protect the new classrooms against damage.

    “Children write on walls which damages the beauty of the new structures. We must maintain a neat environment at all times,” he said.

    A community leader in Jos North, Mr Ajiji Azi Rikkos, in a brief speech after a school in his area was inaugurated, lauded government’s attention to education, and enjoined parents to make maximum use of the opportunity to educate their children.

    “Education is the surest way to tackle poverty. We should not let the opportunity slip through our fingers,” he said.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that schools were inaugurated at Rikkos, Rahoss, and many other areas in the senatorial zone.