By Felix Igbekoyi Correspondent, Asaba
Delta State government has announced its approval for the establishment of 40 new schools in the state, majority of them in the riverine communities.
Prof Patrick Muoboghare, Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, who announced this at an emergency meeting with Chief Inspectors of Education and Principals of public secondary schools in the state said there would be free education there once they commences. He said the gesture would also check the problem of constant lobby by teachers for only schools located in urban areas, recruitment of teachers in the state would now be based on location vacancies.
He expressed worry that while many schools in rural communities lack teachers, few in urban areas were over crowded, maintaining that future employment of teachers would only be for schools where there are vacancies.
He said all strategies adopted in the past by government t to check teachers drift to urban schools had failed to solve the problem, saying that once a teacher was employed for a school, he or she remains there until retirement.
Muoboghare said the free and compulsory computer training for teachers in the state was successful and commended the commitment of teachers that participated in the exercise, saying that those that did not participate would be penalised.
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