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A United Kingdom (UK)-based researcher, Dr Obinna Ogbonnia, has expressed interest that teachers successful Ebonyi State bash not person capable empowerment and grooming for vocation maturation and called for postulation enactment to actualise the goal.
Ogbonnia, a lecturer astatine Swansea University successful the UK, spoke astatine the Women Development Centre (WDC) Abakaliki, during a gathering titled, “Ebonyi Teachers First.”
“Teachers request immoderate of these basal needs to heighten their careers and teaching. Such needs see food, covering and shelter.
“How galore teachers crossed states tin boast of having a location oregon onshore property?” helium asked.
He called connected the authorities authorities to prioritise teachers’ payment and amended learning facilities successful the nation’s basal schools and universities.
Ogbonnia noted that investing successful teachers remains the champion attack to achieving standardisation successful the Nigerian acquisition system.
He maintained that determination was ever a request to recognise teachers arsenic society’s drivers and brainboxes.
Dr Ogbonnia, who successful the gathering talented the oldest teacher, Mrs Alice Awaza, N1 million, said the currency acquisition was conscionable a token to promote the teacher and assistance her financially.
Mrs Awaza, a teacher astatine Ohofia Community Primary School, Ukawu, Onicha, a section authorities successful Ebonyi, has served for 32 years. She started her teaching vocation successful 1992.
Nine different teachers from antithetic superior and secondary schools successful the authorities besides received HP laptops to enactment their teaching.
Prof Daniel Nwibo, Provost of the College of Health Science astatine Ebonyi State University (EBSU), said that teachers merit amended conditions of work not lone successful the authorities but successful Nigeria astatine large.
Nwibo described teachers arsenic “builders” of society.
Prof Godwin Onu, Lecturer, Political Science Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra, who spoke connected Information and Communication Technology (ICT), said it was indispensable to code the challenges of ICT successful teaching processes successful the country.
Onu noted that ICT could marque teaching and learning easier and assistance bring much entree to planetary cognition successful the acquisition system.
“Students get learning updates much easily. So, the authorities needs to heighten teachers’ capableness done ICT and to alteration them to conscionable the planetary inclination successful teaching and learning,” helium said.
One of the participants, Awaza, the Oldest Teacher, thanked the organiser and urged for much precocious grooming for members successful the agrarian communities. Ends.
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