UBEC boss laments dearth of teachers 

Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, has said public primary and basic schools are lacking 30 per cent of teachers workforce. 
 
He said the reduction continued to grow in the last three years because the vacuum had not been filled.   Concerned over the dwindling number of quality teachers in public schools, Bobboyi disclosed that building quality grassroots education in the country without quality teachers could remain a mirage. 
 
The UBEC boss spoke, yesterday, while inspecting the six days capacity building programme of the commission for School Support Officers (SSO) in Kano. 
  Bobboyi stressed the significance of quality teachers to educational development of any society, and challenged managers of basic education system in the states to invest more in the welfare and capacity of their teachers. 

He equally advocated integration of smart education system with the use of technology in teaching methodology in public schools, expressing worries that the present system could not prepare children for future challenges. 
 
In his remarks, the Executive Chairman, Kano State Basic Education Board, (SUBEB), Yusuf Kabir, explained government’s commitment to quality education through investment in teachers’ capacity building and infrastructure growth in public schools. 

Yusuf disclosed that the state government had released the sum of N581, 577 million counterpart funding to enable Kano access its 2023 intervention from SUBEB.