Katsina State Governor Dikko Umar Radda has mandated that appointment letters be issued to the state’s 7,325 freshly hired teachers as soon as possible.
The Governor issued the instruction after receiving the final report of the teacher recruiting effort from the state-appointed committee.
Failing educational standards in the north, particularly in Katsina state, have prompted the state to think outside the box in order to face the problem of teacher shortage head on.
At present, the lack of qualified teachers in and requisite instruction materials in school are the major challenges Governor Radda is working to address.
The size and the rate of population growth in the state has put government in a position of constantly playing catch up.
On its plate is the need to construct new schools and hire over 80,000 teachers to teach in primary and secondary schools.
A committee was set up to oversee the teacher recruitment.
The committee in a short rundown of the recruitment exercise gave an insight into how they arrived at the number of teachers to be recruited and recommendations for training and retraining.
The Governor also urged the newly employed teachers to be diligent in their duties and called for prompt supervision of their activities in schools by all concerned.
Similarly, the governor also received another report from the committee set up to ascertain the liabilities of the state.
