Taraba raises alarm over shortage of science teachers

The Taraba State Commissioner for Basic Education, Dr Augustina Godwin, has raised alarm implicit a increasing shortage of subject teachers successful the state, peculiarly successful physics and chemistry, informing of imaginable semipermanent consequences for captious sectors.

Godwin disclosed this during an in-person grooming programme for Science, Technology, Mathematics and Agriculture (STEMA) teachers held successful Jalingo and attended by educators from elder secondary schools crossed the North-East region.

According to the commissioner, the inadequate fig of qualified subject teachers poses a superior menace to the state’s acquisition improvement and could undermine the aboriginal accumulation of professionals specified arsenic doctors and engineers.

She stressed the urgent request for teachers to actively promote students to instrumentality up subject subjects.

“This inclination is inimical to the improvement of the authorities and could impact our capableness to nutrient skilled professionals successful the adjacent future,” she said.

To code the challenge, Godwin pledged to revamp the Guidance and Counselling Department to intensify sensitisation efforts aimed astatine motivating students to prosecute science-related careers.

She besides assured that her ministry would collaborate with the All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools to make strategies for encouraging inte...