National Senior Secondary Education Commission, NSSEC, has partnered a Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Community Advancement and Humanitarian Empowerment Initiative, CSCHEI, in capacity development of senior secondary school teachers in the country.
This was disclosed by the executive secretary of the commission, Dr Iyela Ajayi, during a visit to his office by a team of CSCHEI top officials.
A statement signed by the head of Public Relations and Protocol, Fatima Bappare, said the training would be on e-learning, technical and sciences with the aim of technically equipping students and enhance their self-reliance for global impact.
Iyela, who recounted the deplorable state of the senior secondary schools, highligted the infrastructural deficit, unqualified teachers, obsolete curriculum, deplorable libraries and laboratories, amongst others, as the numerous challenges confronting the sector.
He said the Nigerian government alone could not fund education and as such, NSSEC, which is saddled with the responsibility of repositioning senior secondary education sector, had been fostering collaboration with development partners and other relevant agencies to ensure they achieve their mandate of empowering the students to be self-reliance upon graduation.
He then applauded the CSCHEI for partnering with NSSEC in the area of capacity development of teachers in e-learning, technology, innovation and sciences.
Speaking earlier, the Director-General of the organisation, Kunle Yusuff revealed that CSCHI was created to support government in promoting humanitarian, community development and social values.
Kunle stated that as an organisation that upholds transparency in its operations, it believed in ‘no teacher no development,’ hence their effort to collaborate with NSSEC in retraining teachers in e- learning, technical and science subjects in line with the Goal 4 SDGs Agenda 2030.
He added that the capacity building of the teachers would be taking place at the in their various local government areas to ensure inclusiveness of all schools, and where the science and technical teachers are not enough for each school, the organisation had.put measures in place to bring back the retired but not tired science teachers to the classroom as resource persons.
