Bayelsa government is also planning to assess teachers

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The plan to compel teachers to take assessment test was made public by the state governor, Seriake Dickson while announcing a two-day meeting of the Joint National Public Service Negotiation Council in Yenagoa.

A statement released by the governor's media aide, Francis Agbo on Wednesday, November 22, announced that the governor would soon send a bill to the State Assembly make it compulsory for both primary and secondary school teachers in the state to undergo a compulsory assessment to qualify them for teaching.

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The statement reads in part, “A bill will be forwarded to the state House of Assembly to make it compulsory for teachers at the primary and secondary school levels to undergo some forms of assessment as part of their qualifications to teach in the state.”

Meanwhile, following the Kaduna teachers' competency test exercise, the government of Kogi state has sent delegates to Governor Nasir El-Rufai to understudy the process and the procedure for teachers' assessment in Kaduna.