Onyeama Begins Training For Public School Teachers In Enugu

Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Oyeama through Kwusike Foundation has undertaken to retrain and empower public school teachers in Enugu State.

The Training Coordinator of the foundation, Mr Uche Gabriel disclosed this in an interview with journalists during a three-daytraining of selected teachers in the state.

Gabriel said that the training became necessary following the urgent need to equip the teachers with modern instructional techniques with a view to improving learning outcome.

He said that the minister was worried by the seeming decay in the sector and had undertaken to conduct regular training for all public school teachers in the state.

The coordinator said that participants at the training would in due time be equip with instructional kits like laptops and other relevant electronic instructional devices.

He said the state government needed to be applauded for recruiting more teachers, adding that such efforts needed to be followed with a routine training and retraining exercises.

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According to him “It is this gap that Kwusike Foundation has come to fill. We see it as a challenge to make public schools better than what it is right now.

“The quality of teaching determines the quality of students produced by the system because teachers can not give what they do not have,” he said.

Gabriel said that the pilot phase of the training involved 50 teachers drawn from schools in the state capital.

He said that the greatest investment any government could make was to give good education to its people, adding that the foundation was opened to collaborating with the state government to do more.