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Ahead of the 2025 Teachers’ Day celebration, Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS), has identified collaboration among teachers, government, parents and communities arsenic the lone mode to prevention Nigeria’s ailing acquisition sector.
Speaking with journalists successful Osogbo, Osun State, up of the 2025 World Teachers’ Day, the National President of ASUSS, Comrade Sola Adigun, said the taxable of this year’s celebration, “Recasting Teaching arsenic a Collaborative Profession,” underscores the urgent request for unity successful tackling the nation’s acquisition challenges.
“Teaching has ne'er been a occupation for lone rangers. The advancement of a kid is determined not by the teacher alone, but besides by parents, policymakers, communities, and government,” Adigun said. “True collaboration gives teachers a dependable successful shaping the aboriginal of education.”
He commended the Federal Ministry of Education for including ASUSS representatives successful the expanded Governing Council of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), and praised the tuition-free Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programme arsenic a exemplary of effectual concern betwixt argumentation and practice.
Adigun besides recognised states similar Ekiti and Bayelsa for pioneering tuition-free method education, portion applauding governments that respect teachers’ close to freely subordinate with ASUSS.
Despite these affirmative steps, the ASUSS president decried the nonaccomplishment of 16 states to instrumentality the Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers successful Nigeria Act, 2022, contempt tribunal rulings. He warned that specified neglect undermines collaboration.
He further criticised the hurried implementation of the caller 9-year Basic Education Curriculum without capable teacher grooming oregon resources.
World Teachers’ Day is celebrated globally connected October 5 to honour educators and spotlight the challenges facing the profession.
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