The Northern Bahr el Ghazal State Ministry of General Education & Instruction has subjected about 9,635 primary eight teachers to an assessment test and competency.
Addressing the media, the acting Director General for Education in Aweil, Ustaz Peter Deng Deng, said the screening examination commenced across the five counties of Aweil state.
“Today, across Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, we are commencing the assessment test for all primary teachers in all the schools in NBGs,” Deng said
“The total number of teachers sitting for this assessment test is 9,635 teachers, including female teachers”.
Mr. Deng, who spoke in one of the centres during the launch in Aweil West County, said the assessment paper was prepared. The University of Rumbek Science & Technology will invigilate it.
“All teachers have come and shown their commitment and readiness because the turnout is good, and they like the assessment test,” he noted.
To him, the screening aimed to identify tutors who need further training, adding that no single teacher would be dismissed or have their name removed from salary pay slips.
“We are doing it so that we know the level of all the teachers so that we plan and make the right decision so that they are taken for training,” Deng explained.
“The overall objective is to identify the level of teacher, for instance, how many teachers need their capacity to be raised,”
Besides, the commissioner of Aweil West County, Peter Garang Maduok, stated that Nyamlel has three centers where over a thousand teachers will be writing their exams.
“So, we want to thank hon. Minister of General Education [Awut Deng] for this initiative she has already made for the South Sudan teacher to see exactly and confirm the teacher that would teach our children,” Maduok said
“The priority in all the countries is only education because when you have a strong education future, then the nation will become a better nation,”
From his part, his counterpart from Aweil North County, Kiir Chan Wol, said his county has six centers for approximately two thousand primary teachers.
“For teachers who will not pass the exams, we are not going to abandon them, but they will be taken for training at the Teachers Training Institute (TTI) so that they become competent teachers,” Wol said.
“We need capable teachers so that they impart education to our sons and daughters in our state and Aweil North County in particular,.”
He lauded the Rumbek varsity management for preparing and putting all vital security measures in place to ensure that papers reach teachers in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state.