Bayelsa To Recruit 300 ICT, Science Teachers

The Bayelsa State Government, has announced its readiness to
recruit about 300 Information and Communication Technology(ICT) and science
teachers to man its primary and secondary schools.

The Bayelsa Governor, Hon Seriake Dickson announced this at
a meeting with education  stakeholders at
Government House, Yenagoa, on Tuesday.

Dickson said the aim is to enable the students appreciate
the importance of ICT and modern teaching technique.

He explained that the initiative, will transfuse new blood
into the stream of education and teaching in the state.

The Bayelsa chief excutive also said that plans are in top
gears to organise a one-week intensive training and retraining  for headmasters and teachers in the state.

He stressed that only those who performed exellently in the
exercise would be allowed to remain in the school syetem.

According to him, teachers would be regularly exposed to the
basic rudiments and modern  ways of
teaching.

The Tide was informed that up to 5,119 teachers and 541
headmasters from the public schools in the state will participate in the
exercise, adding that,  they will be
tested on the skills acquired at the end of the day.

The Tide further learnt that the measure is to effect
drastic changes in the education sector in support to its compulsory and free
education policy.

Furthermore, he ordered the immediate down sizing of the
non-academic staff in the primary school, in order to enable the government to
moblise funds to other important needs.

Meanwhile, the Bayelsa state commissioner for Education, Mr
Salo Adikumo, noted that the meeting was to enable stakeholders to brainstorm
and chart the way forward.

Others who spoke at the gathering, pleaded with the state
government not to allow politicians and other heavy weights in the state to use
the exercise to witch-hunt their suspected enemies, while lauding the gorvernor
over his plans to sanitize the education system.