Kaduna conducts fresh competency test for 35,000 teachers

The Kaduna State Government has commenced another competency test for primary school teachers as part of efforts to ensure quality teaching and learning in basic schools across the state.

Recalls that it comes almost four years after it conducted a similar exercise that led to the dismissal of 22,000 unqualified teachers.

The decision which pitched the Nigerian Union of Teachers, the Nigerian Labour Congress ( NLC) against the state government,  saw the two Labour unions embarking on a peaceful protest.

Despite the dust it generated, the government stuck to its guns and subsequently went ahead to employ about 25,000 new qualified teachers to fill the gaps.

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Addressing journalists on Tuesday, at the commencement of the computer-based test held in three different centres,  the Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, Tijjani Abdullahi said the competency test is not to sack any teacher but to identify gaps in the subject areas for the purpose of training and retraining the teachers.

“The teachers that are here will see the difference in the approach of the testing,” the State SUBEB Chairman said.

Solacebase reports that the teachers are expected to write ten questions per subject; English language,  Mathematics, Social studies and basic science.