The Nigeria Union of Academics, NUT, has lamented ample manpower in public major colleges throughout the nation.
The Nationwide President of NUT, Audu Amba made this identified on the event of the 2024 World Academics’ Day Celebration on Saturday in Abuja, including that some major colleges are barely manned by one or two academics.
The theme for this yr’s World Academics Day’s theme is “Valuing Instructor Voices: In direction of a New Social Contract for Schooling.”
Amba mentioned the manpower disaster had left pupils to endure studying poverty with a bleak future forward.
He added that the scenario in Junior and Senior Secondary Faculties, particularly in rural communities, is worrisome.
“In Nigeria, UBEC (2024) survey signifies that there’s a scarcity of 194,876 academics in public major colleges throughout the nation,” he mentioned.
He expressed displeasure over the non implementation of some welfare packages for academics introduced by the previous President Muhammadu Buhari through the 2020 WTD.
He known as on federal and state governments to make sure full implementation of the authorized incentives to be able to increase the morale of academics within the discharge of their skilled duties.
Whereas congratulating academics on their braveness and sacrifices within the face of daunting challenges, Amba charged them to proceed to uphold the beliefs of the occupation.
The Minister of State for Schooling, Dr Yusuf Sununu, whereas congratulating academics for his or her tireless efforts, assured of presidency’s help in the direction of academics empowerment and coaching in technological expertise.
Sununu, who acknowledged the challenges of academics, pledged the ministry’s dedication to deal with them.
