Kwara state government has announced that it would be training newly recruited State University Basic Education Board (SUBEB) teachers as part of its efforts at providing quality education to its citizens. Chairman, Kwara SUBEB stated that the teachers will not be allowed into the schools to teach the students without being properly trained in the areas of capacity building, methodology of teaching, classroom discipline and professional ethics, because many of the new teachers graduated 6 to 8 years ago and are not in touch with what us going on in the teaching profession. He described the recruitment process as transparent, stating that it is the beginning of a new age in Kwara, where children of nobody becomes somebody without knowing anybody because there was no political influence in the recruitment exercise. He stressed that the needs assessment of teachers was one of the criteria used during the hiring and selection of the teachers. The SUBEB boss explained that the needs assessment was the request of teachers from individual schools through the principal of schools and through the Education Secretaries of the 16 Local Government Areas of the state, adding that the approval of the Governor and the needs assessment greatly determined the number of teachers that were employed since both TESCOM and SUBEB could not exceed the approval of the Governor . While urging the newhy recruited teachers to be committed in the discharge of their duties, Prof. Adaramaja commended the state government and the Universal Basic Education Commission for their support at the on-going 3-weeks capacity building training organised for the teachers in the state.
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