Education: Osun Govt Recruits Additional 1500 Teachers

…It’s part of recruitment exercise we started in 2020 – Commissioner

Additional one thousand five hundred (1500) newly recruited teachers by the Osun State government will resume work in the next two weeks.

The State Commissioner for Education, Hon. Folorunso Oladoyin made the disclosure in Osogbo during a press conference organised to keep the public abreast of salient issues in the education sector as the 2022/2023 academic session commences.

According to him, the recruitment was in addition to the previous one thousand (1000) teachers recently recruited by the Administration of Governor Gboyega Oyetola.

Oladoyin noted that the new recruits are part of the process of recruitment embacked upon by the government in the year 2020 to inject fresh and more qualified teachers into the primary and secondary education sector of the State.

Oladoyin said the administration of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola has taken various steps that will no doubt reposition the State’s education sector for better results.

According to him a number of measures have been introduced by the Ministry of Education on behalf of the State Government all in a bid to improve on the standard of education in the State.

He said parts of the meassure introduced by the ministry in its efforts to uplift the standard of education in the state include re-inteoduction of placement examination, (common entrance) for candidates intending to gain admission into JSS1 and SSS1.

The Commissioner noted that the new admission process was introduced with a view to standardizing and sanitizing the process of admitting teachable students into the state’s Secondary Schools.

He added that the era of automatic promotion in the government school has gone as the policy of no pass no promotion implementation as from this 2022/2023 academic session.

He also used the medium to direct pupils who passed qualifying examinations into JSS1 and SSS2 to purchase scratch card to enable them gain access to designated website www.ossgexams.com where the name of successful candidates have been uploaded to personally pick any public school of their choice.

In the same vain, Hon. Oladoyin added that promotion from SSS 2 to SSS 3 in public Secondary Schools has been based on 40% pass mark in five subjects including Mathematics and English Language.

According to him, “An Examination Committee headed by the Honourable Commissioner for Education who doubles as the Chairman of the board with membership drawn from the Ministry of Education, OSEB, Tutors-General and the leadership ANCOPSS decided on pass marks of 30% and 45% for placement into JSS 1 and SSS 1 respectively at its meeting held on Thursday, 15th September, 2022.

“Based on these agreed pass marks, out of 24,372 candidates that sat for the placement examination into JSS 1, 23,685 passed while 687 failed representing 97.18% and 2.82% respectively. Also, 19,479 passed while 4,893 failed the placement examination into SSS 1 out of 24,572 candidates thereby giving 79,92% pass and 20.08% failure respectively.”