Anambra State Governor, Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo, (CFR) has directed a repeat of the online recruitment exam for teachers in Anambra State; which is in line with his objective of ensuring transparency and fairness to all.
Governor Soludo has, therefore, directed the Hon Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh to conduct a repeat of the exercise to make up for the shortfall in the Saturday 4th of June preliminary Teacher’s Recruitment Examination.
He has further directed that all expenses for the test be covered by the Government.
Transparency
To ensure transparency in the exercise, steps were taken by the Ministry of Education charged with the responsibility. The Ministry received over 40,000 applications and listed about 31,800 qualified applicants after reviews.
Applicants considered too old for civil service, Graduates without NYSC discharged certificates or Exemption letter and other deficiencies were disqualified.
Against the proposed 5,000 qualified applicants shortlisted for CBT exam, the governor directed that all the over 31,000 listed applicants should be given equal chance to participate in a preliminary online exam, before shortlisting the successful applicants for 2nd CBT exam.
Other measures necessary to attain reliability and credibility of the test were taken. It is in a bid to make up and ensure that all eligible candidates are carried along and that the governor has approved a repeat of the exercise.
He assures Ndi-Anambra that their interest will be protected at all times by his administration.
Olusola Akintonde
