Only master’s degree holders wiil be employed as schoolteachers in Taraba – Gov Kefas

• He also said that the minimum academic qualification for primary schoolteachers will be a university first degree

The Taraba State Government says plans are underway to peg academic qualification requirement for secondary school teaching jobs in the State at master’s degree.

The state governor, Dr Agbu Kefas, said only master’s degree will be accepted from any prospective teacher in the state’s secondary schools.

Kefas made the disclosure on Sunday,
January 7, while addressing newsmen in Jalingo, the state’s capital,

He also said that the minimum academic qualification for primary schoolteachers will be a university first degree.

Speaking with journalists Kefas said the current era when the National Certificate of Education is the minimum academic qualification for primary school teachers will soon be over.

According to him, “In no distant time, primary schoolteachers in the state must be first degree holders while secondary school teachers must have a minimum of master’s degree to enhance the quality of education in the state.

This is the main reason we have slashed the school fees for undergraduates in the state university.

We must secure a good future for our children. Our free education policy is not a joke and anybody who stands on the way to achieving this will be crushed.”

If the plan sees the light of day, the state will become the first in the country to promulgate such educational policy. .

Raising the academic requirements for teachers will certainly herald a new wage structure for teachers in the state leading to increase in their salaries, a feat many say a poor state like may find it difficult to achieve.