PRIMARY EDUCATION: KADUNA STATE TEACHERS FAILS PRIMARY FOUR CERTIFICATION EXAMS

Education as the back bone and also the nation builder of any country or society must hold up its right to ensure that children are well learned in every aspect of life so as to be able to cope with the society and the Nation at large.

Recently in Nigeria, some teachers have failed to do what is right in tackling and eradicating illiteracy in Nigeria. In Kaduna state, Governor Nasir el-Rufa was shocked as 21,780 out of 33,000 Kaduna states teachers fails primary four exams. These teachers were required to at least have a 75 per cent pass of the examination conducted and to his surprise, it was announce that 66 per cent of them failed to get the requirements.

It was concluded that the educational system in the past was politicized as people are being employ into schools due to influential complex not for their academic performances or qualifications as this tend to affect the pupils or students they teach. But the present government of Kaduna state intends on shopping for 25,000 new young and qualified primary school teachers as one of the plans to restore dignity and quality to education back to state.

The Kaduna state educational system was also faced with challenges of teacher- pupil ratio where a teacher will teach more than one subjects to the pupil and that these might sometimes affects the teachers, and that In some local government areas, it’s a teacher pupil ratio of 1-9 while in some places it’s 1-100 but promise were been made that teachers Would be redeployed across the state to balance the issue of teacher – pupil ratio.

In other to support the state and the country, the Education Intervention Fund by the World Bank and other collaborative development partners, is rendering support to about 13 Northern states and a state from each of the other four geopolitical zones of the country.