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Finland To Train Nigerian Teachers

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The Visiting Finland’s Deputy Minister of External Economic Relations to Nigeria, Mr Matti Anttonen, on Wednesday expressed his government’s readiness to train Nigerian teachers.

 

Anttonen told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the plan was part of his government’s effort at ensuring that Nigerian teachers were well-grounded in the teaching profession.

 

The deputy minister said that because it would not be possible to send all Nigerian teachers to Finland, a large number of them would be selected to visit Finland as trainers.

 

“We are looking at the possibility of bringing some teacher trainers from Nigeria to Finland. It is expected that those trained in Finland would come back and share their knowledge with tens of thousands of Nigerian teachers.

 

We know that Nigeria is a very huge country, and that every year about seven million children are being born and every year five million children start schooling.

 

This means that Nigeria needs additional tens of thousands of well-trained teachers to be able to give qualitative education to these children,’’ he said.

 

Anttonen, also Finland’s Under-Secretary of State, said that it would be more cost-efficient and result-oriented to plan toward sending teacher trainers from Nigeria to Finland.

 

 

According to him, the proposal is already being looked into by Finland’s government, private sector and universities.

 

The under-secretary of state said that his government and Finland’s private sector and universities would “carefully find the right partners’’ from both countries before embarking on the proposal.

 

 

He said that there was a lot for Nigerian teachers to gain from the planned exchange of teaching experience programme with them in Finland.

 

 

(NAN)

Nigerian Teachers Celebrate World Teachers Day

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Nigerian teachers are joining their counterparts around the world to mark the World Teachers’ Day

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is marking the 2015 event by highlighting the importance of empowering teachers to achieve inclusive and sustainable global development.

This year, the day comes just after the adoption of the new Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations’ General Assembly and represents the first opportunity to set out a road map for teachers in the new Education 2030 Agenda.

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FG Declares Bumper Packages For Nigerian Teachers

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The federal government has announced series of incentives that are expected to booster the morale of Nigerian teachers and enhance increased performance and productivity, as part of the activities marking the ongoing world teacher’s day, which will officially kick start on Monday, October 5th, 2015.

The acting Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Hajia Hindatu Abdullahi said government recognises the fact that no nation or society can rise above the quality of her teachers and the education system.

She said, ‘’the federal government has accorded the development and welfare of teachers a top priority. Our focus is to equip teachers with the required skills, knowledge and competence to meet the varied needs of the 21st century learners.’’

Mrs. Abdullahi, who further acknowledged the theme of this year’s celebration titled, ’’Empowering the teachers, building sustainable societies’’, as being apt, maintained that it was in line with the effort of the ministry to reposition the education sector so as to meet national aspirations.

She further unveiled government’s plan to host National Teacher’s Summit, which will among other themes, focus on the implementation of teacher’s salary structure, the challenges associated with their career growth, including status improvement ,remuneration and condition of service.

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Nigerian Teachers To Get Free Education, Homes- Osinbajo

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There are indications that the nation’s teachers will benefit from a free education programme at tertiary levels when the All Progressives Congress (APC) takes charge of the running of government come May 29, 2015.

Nigeria’s Vice President-elect, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, who gave the hint during a consultative meeting with members of Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) in Lagos on Wednesday, said continuous education for teachers was one of the core programmes of APC to raise standard of education in the country.

Osibanjo emphasised that the administration would guarantee regular teacher training, noting that education and health would receive priority attention in Buhari’s administration.

The professor, “If you look at our manifesto, we would spend a lot of time and money on public education that is why this consultation is very important but it is just the beginning of the series of consultations that we intend to have. Fortunately, I am from here, I am one of you and this means there will be direct access which will make it easier for us to do all we want to do…”

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