DELTA STATE SETTING THE PACE IN THE RECRUITMENT OF TEACHERS – PPEB Boss

7,000 shortlisted candidates for recruitment into the Delta State Unified Teaching Service have write their Computer Based Test (CBT).

The chairman of the State Post Primary Education Board (PPEB), Mrs Christiana Etaluku, who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with gallantreporters, said the 7,000 candidates were shortlisted from the over 52,000 candidates that applied for the 1,000 vacancies declared by the state government.

Mrs Etaluku said the CBT was conducted in eleven centres across the state, including Asaba, Agbor, Ogwashi Uku, Abraka, Agbarha Otor and Warri, describing the exercise as credible and transparent.

She explained that different subject specialists were engaged to set 100 questions in each of the subject areas from which 60 questions were picked by different persons for the CBT which was midwifed by an IT consultant.

The PPEB chairman pointed out that the candidates already knew their scores, adding that the successful ones would be tested in Micro Teaching Exercise this week before an oral interview to round off the recruitment exercise.

Mrs Etaluku said the 1,000 vacancies declared was the first phase of the recruitment exercise to fill the huge number of vacancies existing in the state school system, as more recruitments would be carried out in subject areas not covered in the current exercise in due course.

She maintained that for the first time in the history of the state teachers were being recruited purely on merit without any external influence, stressing that Delta schools would be better for it.

The PPEB boss commended the state Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, for approving the recruitment exercise and for allowing the exercise to be on merit and not hijacked by anyone.