Why teachers earn poor salary – Experts

…Demand alteration of attitude

By Adesina Wahab

Experts successful the acquisition assemblage person blamed the mediocre renumeration of teachers and lecturers connected mediocre cognition of Nigerians to acquisition and besides not seeing teachers arsenic radical to beryllium fixed precedence attention.

They spoke during a zoom gathering organised by the Concerned Parents and Educators Network, CPE, to people this year’s Teachers Day. The taxable of the lawsuit was “Poor wage of teachers and lecturers.”

The panelists, Yomi Fawehinmi, Taiwo Akinlami, Anjonrin Adeyemi, Beulah Marshal and Peter Dugbo, besides noted that the nine besides has a incorrect cognition of who a teacher is.

Akinlami, successful his remarks, besides blamed teachers for not organizing themselves, but alternatively spell agonizing erstwhile arsenic a radical they could request changes and execute results.

On his part, Fawehinmi noted that the cognition of astir Nigerians to acquisition is mediocre and that immoderate spot teaching arsenic a assemblage for those who could not marque it successful different professions.

“People don’t admit teaching arsenic a assemblage and teachers are not seen arsenic those to beryllium taken arsenic a priority. The deficiency of dependable connected the portion of teachers is simply a origin too.

‘Regarding the wage of assemblage lecturers, it is tilted towards allowances. Also, the signifier whereby the unions volition beryllium negotiating with the authorities is not the perfect thing. They are not employees of the Federal Ministry of Education, it is the Governing Council of each assemblage that it is the leader of the workers and they should negociate with them. The wage indispensable not needfully beryllium the aforesaid crossed the country. If you lecture astatine the University of Lagos, your wage should not compulsorily beryllium the aforesaid arsenic that of the idiosyncratic who lectures astatine a assemblage successful Gusau,” helium posited.

He added that successful places similar Canada, determination is nary cardinal operation deciding issues relating to education, but that it is done astatine provincial level.

Adeyemi, successful his submission, noted that radical person incorrect cognition astir teachers and that adjacent immoderate parents don’t worth them.

He called for the professionalization of the teaching profession. Beulah, successful her remarks, blamed schoolhouse owners for not taking bully attraction of their teachers.

She called for a alteration of mindset, adding that teachers indispensable beryllium adequately compensated. Dugbo said schoolhouse owners put successful structures but hide to instrumentality attraction of their teachers.

The Founder of CPE, Mrs Yinka Ogunde, thanked participants for their contributions, adding that the radical would proceed to bring contented relating to acquisition to nationalist consciousness.

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