Kaduna State Teachers Service Board (TSB) Chairman, Adamu Makade has disclosed that the teachers in the state earn 27% higher than other civil servants in other sectors.<\/p>\n
He revealed this at a workshop on Teachers Issues in Conflict and Protracted Crisis Settings: Documenting the Effectiveness of the Kaduna Teacher Reforms in the state.<\/strong><\/p>\n He explained that there is nothing wrong with the education sector in the country rather they should be focused on the quality of the teachers.<\/p>\n He noted there should be reforms to address the recruitment, deployment, and retention of teachers in the state.<\/p>\n He stated that measures are being implemented to ensure the recruitment of quality and competent teachers are retained in the state.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cFor instance, if you are a teacher on a particular salary grade level and step, compared to your colleague, who is not a teacher but in the same grade level and step, you will discover that teachers earn about 27% higher than other civil servants.”<\/em><\/p>\n A University don and Regional Research Director for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Nigeria and South Sudan, Professor Oladele Akogun stated that in order to establish a sustainable environment for everyone with a good education sector, teachers should be treated better than medical doctors.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cA situation where the country has a beautiful policy of free and compulsory education up to 18 years, but in practice, it is not implemented, cannot yield the desired result.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kaduna State Teachers Service Board (TSB) Chairman, Adamu Makade has disclosed that the teachers in the state earn 27% higher than other civil servants in other sectors. He revealed this at a workshop on Teachers Issues in Conflict and Protracted Crisis Settings: Documenting the Effectiveness of the Kaduna Teacher Reforms in the state. He explained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1362,1364,1361,1363],"class_list":["post-15558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local","tag-adamu-makade","tag-international-rescue-committee-irc","tag-kaduna-state-teachers-service-board-tsb","tag-professor-oladele-akogun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}