The Ogun State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) has proposed to employ 1,000 teaching and 200 non-teaching staff in 2017 into the various public secondary schools to ensure the success of the free and qualitative education in the state.
The Chairman, Teaching Service Commission, Mrs. Olabosipo Ogunsan, stated this while defending the commission’s 2017 budget proposal before members of the state House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation led by Honourable Akanbi Bankole.
Ogunsan added that the commission would also train and retrain teaching and non-teaching staff for effective service delivery in view of its goal to provide more suitable environment for teaching, research and skill acquisition, adding that it would intensify efforts at strengthening supervision of quality assurance of staff.
The TESCOM boss, who proposed that it would embark on rehabilitation and repairs of 22 zonal offices to enhance its statutory operation, promised to maximize the quality level of teaching through professionalism as well as maintaining discipline and cordial relationship among teaching and non-teaching staff in public schools across the state.
To achieve the objectives of the 2017 budget, Ogunsan said the agency proposed a budget of N21.1 billion out of which its capital project would gulp N78 million, while the remaining N21 billion would be expended on recurrent, just as its expected revenue for the period was put at N2 million.
In a related development, the State Government has promised that it would capture all children of school age with a view to providing them with appropriate levels of literacy, numeracy, communication and manipulative skills that can project them to the next level of schooling in accordance with the Universal Basic Education Law.
The Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, Alhaji Olatunde Okewole said this while taking his turn to defend the board’s 2017 budget estimate before the members of the state assembly.
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