Anambra State Govt Concludes Recruitment Of 5000 Teachers

Another history has been made in Anambra State, as five thousand newly recruited teachers receive appointment papers to assume work in the State Schools System.

A release signed by the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry Of Education Mr Nmaemeka Egwuonwu said that following dearth of teachers in schools as inherited by the present administration on assumption of office, Governor Chukwuma Soludo immediately approved the recruitment of the five thousand teachers, following a process which observers have described as most credible and transparent in recent times.

It explained that Out of the 40,120 candidates who responded to the initial advertisement, 13,500 scaled through the first Computer Based Test which had 60 as the cut off mark, while

Later, in search of Core Subjects, a supplementary list took the cutoff down to 55, thereby adding additional 2000 candidates to the number scheduled for the last CBT.

It stated that the last CBT was scheduled in 6 centres at s cutoff point of 55, in which 8120 successful candidates were scheduled for Oral and Written Interview and success was determined by adding the last CBT sores and the Oral/Written interview scores and dividing by simple average and the cutoff was set at 60.℅

In a statement, the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh announced that Governor Soludo will on Friday, 2nd December 2022, address the newly recuited teachers in a ceremony designed by the Ministry of Education, to get the new teachers in tune with what the Governor’s administration expects of them, in the drive to provide quality and value based Education for Anambra children.

According to the release ,the event is scheduled to take place at the International Conference Center Awka. while the invitees are expected to be seated before 9am.