Mimiko orders recruitment of 2,000 teachers

 The Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade, has said that the state government has directed the state’s Teaching Service Commission to begin the recruitment of 2,000 teachers into its schools.

Briefing newsmen on the development on Tuesday, Akinmade said the exercise was part of government’s efforts to create gainful employment and improve the standard of education in the state.

Giving details of the exercise, Akinmade said 1, 300 university graduates with teaching education qualification would be employed. Continue..

He added that 200 National Certificate of Education holders and 500 non-teaching applicants would also benefit from the exercise.

The commissioner said application forms could be obtained online by applicants for free, vide TESCOM website, (www.ondotescom.org <http://www.ondotescom.org/>).

Stressing that applicants must be of Ondo State origin, Akinmade added that quality control system would be adopted in the employment process.

This, according to him, will include computer based test (CBT) with General Paper, core subjects and use of English as parameters, adding that qualified candidates would be interviewed by TESCOM while successful candidates would be exposed to a one-week induction course.

Akinmade added that the recruitment drive was to strengthen the educational sector at the secondary school level.

Though the state government had since 2009 carried out teaching employment on the basis of vacancies, it however said it embarked on this recruitment to mop up youths from the unemployment market, empower them as well as give them a future and a hope.

“The present administration has since inception carried out a number of educational reforms at all levels of education in the state from the primary to the tertiary, one of the recent being the free school bus shuttle which has not only provided succour for both parents and students but has also gone a long way in improving school attendance with the incidence of absenteeism and lateness reduced,” he said.