DELTA PPEB BOSS TASKS TEACHERS ON DILIGENCE

The large number of teachers in urban schools in Delta state has been attributed to the high population of students in such schools.

The Chairman of the State Post Primary Education Board, PPEB, Mrs Christiana Etaluku, stated this in Asaba in an exclusive interview with gallantreporters.

Mrs Etaluku said though teachers refusal to accept posting to rural schools was negatively affecting the system, the Board had taken steps to ensure that rural schools were not denied the services of qualified teachers.

These include monitoring of attendance of teachers to work and ensuring that teachers posted to rural schools moved with their pay points to avoid distraction.

She pointed out that the ongoing recruitment of teachers was specifically designed to address the shortage of manpower in rural and riverine schools, as those to be recruited would be under a bond to serve in rural areas for a period of not less than five years in the first instance.

The Delta PPEB Chairman, however, noted that laxity on the part of some teachers had become an issue which the Board was seriously addressing in view of its consequence on the future of the children entrusted to their care.

She, therefore, charged teachers in public post primary schools in the state to be diligent in the discharge of their duties in order to justify the interest of government in their welfare.

Mrs Etaluku said the Board under her watch had rebranded to the extent that staff could now boast of a conducive work environment, adding that promotion was as and when due, while posting was according to seniority and without favoritism, a situation she said had raised the confidence of staff in the Board.