The Federal Ministry of Education on Monday noted that the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities has hindered the payment of bursary to students of education in universities.
The permanent secretary of the ministry, Andrew Adejo, made
this known during the 2022 World Teachers Day press briefing held in Abuja.
Last year president Buhari promised to release bursaries to
students studying education in universities and colleges of education.
“Undergraduates of B.Ed/B.A. Ed/BSc. Ed in Public
institutions are to receive stipends of N75,000.00 per semester while NCE
students will get N50,000.00 as stipends per semester.
“Federal Government should find the modality through which
respective states’ governments could provide automatic employment for NCE
graduates at Basic Education level,” Buhari had said through his minister of
education, Adamu Adamu.
Speaking to the press, Adejo said, “The implementation of
the payment of stipends has commenced.
However, due to the strike, we have not been able to get the
data of all the students in universities. We only have 7 per cent of the
required data to be processed for payment.”
Speaking further, Adejo said, “I must state here that the
national implementation of the New National Teaching Policy has commenced. It
is a holistic package that will ultimately address the career path,
remuneration, professional teaching standards, qualification, deployment and
management of teachers.
“The theme for the year 2022 WTD which is ‘the
transformation of education begins with teachers’ strongly stresses the
importance of empowering teachers for the effective transformation of education
to ensure quality teaching and learning as well as galvanize technological
advancements to meet the ever-changing needs for national growth and
development.”
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