The Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Science and
Technology, Prof. Joseph Olowofela, said 2,000 teachers who possessed higher
certificates than their present status in the state primary schools would be
redeployed to secondary schools as part of the ongoing schools’ reform by the
government.
This followed the state government’s decision to implement
the white paper of a committee inaugurated on July 12, 2016 after protests
greeted the state government’s plan to involve stakeholders in the management
of 31 public secondary schools in the state.
Olowofela said the aim of the directive was to optimise
output and ensure that the standard of education in the state was improved.
He said, “What the government wants to achieve is efficiency
to optimise output and to restructure workforce to enhance efficiency and
productivity in the education sector.”
The state government recently released the white paper on
its education reform drive to address the rot in the education sector. Under
the new reforms, each public school will get a Governing Board that will manage
its affairs.
The committee’s recommendations adopted by the government
include the classification of the schools into five categories, restructuring
of education agencies for effective interaction and information management,
adoption of schools by willing partners, equitable distribution of teachers,
improvement of quality assurance and implementation of the Education Trust
Fund.
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