TESCOM TO EMPLOY 1,200 TEACHING, NON-TEACHING STAFF NEXT YEAR
The Ogun State Teaching Service Commission has proposed to employ 1,000 teaching and 200 non-teaching staff in 2017 in to the various public secondary schools in the State to ensure the success of the free and qualitative education programme in the State.
The Chairman, Teaching Service Commission, Mrs. Olabosipo Ogunsan stated this today while defending the commission’s 2017 budget proposal before members of the State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation led by Hon. Akanbi Bankole at the Assembly Complex, Oke- Mosan, Abeokuta.
Ogunsan added that the commission would also train and retrain teaching and non-staff for effective service delivery in view of its goal to provide more suitable environment for teaching, research and skill acquisition, adding that it would intensify efforts at strengthening supervision of quality assurance of staff.
The TESCOM boss, who proposed that it would embark on rehabilitation and repairs of 22 Zonal Offices to enhance its statutory operation, promised that it would also maximize the quality level of teaching through professionalism as well as maintaining discipline and cordial relationship among teaching and non-teaching staff in public schools across the State.
To achieve the objectives of the 2017 budget, Ogunsan said the agency proposed a total budget of N21.1b out of which its capital project would gulp N78m, while the remaining N21b would be expended on recurrent, just as its expected revenue for the period was put at N2m.
In a related development, the State Government has promised that it would capture all children of school age with a view to providing them with appropriate levels of literacy, numeracy, communication and manipulative skills that can project them to the next level of schooling in accordance with the Universal Basic Education Law.
The Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, Alhaji Olatunde Okewole said this while taking his turn to defend the board’s 2017 budget estimate before the members of the State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation led by Akanbi Bankole in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
The Chairman added that the board would provide friendly school environment to ensure increased enrolment thereby eliminating illiteracy to actualize the attainment of basic education by all school children in the State.
To achieve the 2017 budget objectives, the agency proposed a total of N2.08bn, out of which N1.5bn would be spend on capital projects, while the remaining N580m would be expended on recurrent with its revenue put at N16.4m
