Not exact matches
Other areas the chime led administration is positively giving uncommon facelift to include; renovation
of dilapidated school structures, provision
of Ambulances and medical emergency response personnel in Enugu State which is under its Medical Emergency Response Scheme,
recruitment of 2000
teachers for secondary schools and an
additional 2000 volunteer
teachers to fast track its Volunteer Service Scheme, a scheme whereby retired but not tired
teachers are engaged based on personal volition in order to increase and complement the inadequate number
of teachers teaching in the state's schools, provision
of brand new tractors to encourage mechanized system
of farming to add vim to the revolution going on in the agricultural sector etc..
Additional research that validates these measures
of teacher effectiveness on non-tested outcomes would have important implications not only for
teacher recruitment, assessment, and placement, but also for improving overall life trajectories
of students.
This is set to grow further over the next two years, with the
recruitment of additional CAS Master
Teachers.
The report, entitled «Heads up: meeting the challenges
of head
teacher recruitment», said: «Our initial estimate is that this could result in over 1,000
additional vacancies over the next five years.»
The government blames improvements in the economy, a shrinking graduate pool and greater competition in the labour market for making it «more difficult for the education system to meet the demand for
additional teachers domestically», and says overseas
recruitment will be pursued as a «supplementary avenue
of teacher supply».
Given the evidence on where
teacher supply and pay shortfalls are greatest, it is encouraging the new
recruitment measures are tightly focused on languages, science, and maths
teachers, and will concentrate
additional funding in «challenging schools» or parts
of the country with acute supply issues.
As the practice becomes more common,
additional research on the impact on both student performance and other potential effects related to new
teacher recruitment and retention
of effective
teachers is warranted.
His guarantee
of the needed funding to deliver this
additional work in schools recognises that
recruitment and retention
of teachers is a vital investment for this government, particularly in light
of the
teacher supply crisis.
That news, coupled with Republican proposals to scrap retiree health benefits and pensions for new
teachers, skip cost -
of - living adjustments for state employees and bypass written commitments for
additional funding
of «specialty» arts and P.E.
teachers in elementary grades, will only exacerbate the state's well - documented troubles with
teacher recruitment, critics say.