Dapo Abiodun, Governor of Ogun State, has approved the distribution of employment letters to 1,000 Ogun Teaching Experience Acquisition Channel (OgunTEACh) beneficiaries.
This is in fulfilling of Abiodun’s commitment made during the World Teachers’ Day celebration on October 5, this year, to hire the OgunTEACh Interns permanently.
At the ceremony, the governor also announced the hiring of 2,000 interns on top of the 2,000 previously hired, for a total of 5,000 teachers.
Abiodun stated at the presentation of letters to newly hired instructors that successful applicants were picked based on their endurance, effort, commitment, and doggedness throughout their internship.
The governor, who was represented by the Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, stated that the move was part of the current administration’s attempt to enhance education standards in the state.
He said that the job was to guarantee that suitable and sufficient instructors were pumped into the system while decreasing the burden on existing teachers.
According to Arigbabu:
“Our governor meant well when he declared emergency in the education sector. Part of his concern was how to ensure better welfare for teachers, including prompt payment of salaries, creating a well conducive teaching and learning environment and injecting of enough teachers into the schools system to jack up the standard.”
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