No fewer than 79 schools in the Misau Local Government Area of Bauchi State have only one teacher each, teaching all subjects.
Korijo Umar, the director of school services for the Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board, said this while responding to inquiries from journalists during a press conference arranged by the UNICEF on the enrollment drive of out-of-school children in the LGAs of Misau and Alkaleri.
Usman claimed that many schools in the LGA and throughout the state have insufficient instructors while speaking at the Central Primary School in the Misau LGA.
“There are 79 schools in Misau that each have just one teacher, whereas there are 0 schools that have no teachers. All schools have teachers, but they are not up to par.
“Misau is even better compared to others. Go to some other schools and see the situation there. So, what we do is find out where they are congested, and we ask them to redeploy and post them to other places. And that is what we told them from SUBEB: if they see a school with many teachers, they should move to two or three other schools, depending on the number there.
“If you go to the Bauchi metropolis, you’ll see that there are classes with even 150 or 200, even 220 and 250 pupils with only a teacher.”
When asked what SUBEB was doing to address the problem, Umar said, “SUBEB does not employ teachers. What we do is only post teachers to schools. The Teachers Service Commission is saddled with the responsibility of employing teachers in collaboration with SUBEB.”