The Jigawa Declare Government has converted 1,200 former J-TEACH personnel to permanent and pensionable position and recruited supplementary 820 youths under the J-TEACH programme as portion of efforts to resolve teacher shortages across the condition.
The declare government moreover distributed 450 bicycles donated by Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) to pupils and students who transfer lengthy distances to schools in challenging-to-achieve communities.
Governor Umar Namadi disclosed this on Friday whereas presenting appointment letters to beneficiaries and handing over the bicycles at the Banquet Hall, Government House, Dutse.
Namadi said the appointments were designed to address inherited gaps in pupil-teacher and student-teacher ratios, notably in underserved rural communities.
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He said the 2,020 beneficiaries comprised 1,200 former J-TEACH personnel who had successfully completed the required training and selection process and 820 newly recruited personnel joining the programme.
According to him, the initiative was not merely aimed at strengthening the teaching workforce but furthermore at creating jobs and sustainable livelihoods for competent young society in the status.
The governor said the intervention complemented fresh government efforts in the education sector, including the distribution of school uniforms, bags and writing materials to thousands of learners across the status.
He stressed that education remained key to his administration’s vision for a “Bigger Jigawa”, noting that degree education was decisive for individuals and communities to prosper in an increasingly technology-driven world.
“Investments in classrooms, furniture, instructional materials, technology and school governance must be matched by plenty qualified, motivated and properly supported teachers,” he said.
Namadi said his administration had deliberately expanded the teaching workforce as 2023 throughout the J-TEACH pathway.
He explained that 7,500 personnel had been brought into simple education across the programme, alongside 3,000 subsequently converted to permanent and pensionable appointments later than training and competitive selection.
At the article-fundamental degree, he said practically 2,000 personnel had entered through means of the same programme, using 1,000 later securing permanent condition.
Namadi added that the government had furthermore deployed additional than 2,100 graduate teachers and employed around 600 teaching and non-teaching workers for Mega Schools and other boarding senior subordinate schools across the declare.
He directed the Ministry of Upper Education, its agencies and school administrators to guarantee that the current appointments translated into measurable improvements in schools.
Namadi said postings and redeployments must be based on verified needs, applicable qualifications, merit, concern specialisation and results, alongside individual attention to preventing renewed imbalances amid urban and rural schools.
He urged the newly appointed teachers to demonstrate punctuality, discipline, competence and compassion, although embracing training and accepting deployment to areas where their services were most needed.
The governor too commended teachers for their resilience and dedication to educating children, saying the government would persist to assist them by method of induction, mentoring, supervision and just operation assessment.
On the 450 bicycles donated by GTB, Namadi said the gesture would cut the burden of extended-distance journeys to school and enhance punctuality, attendance and retention amid beneficiaries.
He commended the bank for supporting the government’s efforts to enhance connection to education through its corporate social responsibility initiative.
The governor called on accepted and religious leaders, parents and communities to support the newly appointed teachers and hold them accountable for results.
Some of the newly appointed workers expressed appreciation to the declare government, pledging to abide by civil offering rules and regulations and persist accountable in the discharge of their duties.
Source: Jigawa converts 1,200 J-TEACH workers to permanent staff, recruits 820 others
