Plateau sacks 747 primary school teachers

Jos

Plateau state government has sacked 747 primary school teachers and announced the reinstatement of 141 teachers.
Blueprint gathered that some of the teachers who lost their jobs were among those who failed to tender the minimum teaching qualification certificates as required by the state’s Teaching Service Commission.
Chairman of the state’s Universal Basic Education, Mathew Sule, made the disclosure yesterday in Jos, the state capital, at a refresher course for officials in the education sector.
He said the affected teachers did not present the basic certificates that qualified them to teach in public schools within the time stipulated for them to do so.
According to him, those who had attained the maximum number of years of public service were also retired.
On the 141 teachers recalled, he said they had met the requirements laid down by government.
It would be recalled that the immediate past administration of former Governor Jonah Jang, shortly before he left office, sacked over 4, 000 primary school teachers it found not to have the basic qualifications to teach.
Sule also disclosed that there was an urgent need to employ new teachers to fill the vacancies created by retirements and to enable public schools to have teachers for all subjects.

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