The Delta State Government intends to hire more qualified teachers in order to boost the teacher-to-pupil ratio and raise educational standards.
Mrs. Rose Ezewu, the Commissioner for Secondary Education, made this public yesterday while supervising an aptitude exam for 6,900 individuals who applied for teaching vacancies.
InsightnaijaTV reports that the aptitude test is being administered via a computer-based test (CBT).
The commissioner observed the activity at the Delta State Library ICT Centre and Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku in the local governments of Oshimili South and Aniocha South.
She asked the applicants to give it their all.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Augustine Oghoro, described the use of CBT as an innovation geared towards sanitising the process of evaluation.
He said the use of CBT in aptitude test in the state began in 2019 with the recruitment conducted by the Ministry of Technical Education.
“The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education is applying the scheme for the first time with the ongoing recruitment processes.
“Through the use of CBT the results of the performance of the applicants will be accessed instantly.
“The use of CBT is to evaluate the competencies of shortlisted applicants and 6,900 candidates were shortlisted,’’ she said.
NAN reports that in February, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa approved the recruitment of 1,500 teachers to shore up the academic staff strength for secondary schools.
He said the figure was to make up for the shortfall in the number of teachers in some public post-primary schools occasioned by retirements, deaths and a number of new schools established across the state.
