The issue of some teachers in Ogun State who have been stagnated on a particular grade level for too long will soon become a thing of the past as necessary measures have been put in place to address the anomaly in their career progression. Chairman of the State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Ms. Olubukunola Onabanjo gave this assurance in Abeokuta when members of the House Committee on Education, Science and Technology visited the Commission to monitor the 2013 budget performance as part of their oversight functions. Ms. Onabanjo decried a situation where some teachers were on a grade level for too long due to the disparity in the years of obtaining their NCE and Degree qualifications, expressing optimism that if corrected, it would help improve performance and productivity and make the teachers to be at par with their colleagues in the civil service. Speaking on the inadequate teaching workforce in some public secondary schools, Ms. Onabanjo disclosed that the Commission recently carried out a 4-day schools’ data screening exercise to address lopsidedness in the posting of teachers, assuring that government would continue to address challenges of inadequate teachers headlong within the shortest possible time. On the of payment of National Youth Service Corp members’ allowance, the TESCOM boss revealed that her Commission had paid all allowances for batches A,B and C of 2012-2013, noting that those that were not paid were not duly registered with the Commission. In his remarks, the Committee Chairman, Honourable Yinka Mafe said that his members, TESCOM and Office of the Head of Service would soon hold a joint session and come up with a lasting solution to the bureaucratic bottle neck militating against teachers’ career progression in the State, “We will come up with a workable document that will address the issue of stagnation of teachers on a grade level for more than necessary through a joint committee of Teaching Service Commission, office of the Head of Service and House committee on Education”, Hon. Mafe said. Adding her voice, a member of the Committee, Hon. Adijat Oladipupo Adeleye, commended the Commission on the employment of special teachers for students with disability and urged the Commission to expedite actions on the implementation of the upward review of the rural allowance to address the rural-urban migration of teachers.
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