Adediran said this in an interview with our correspondent in Osogbo on the sidelines of programme organised by the union to mark the 2018 World Teachers Day.
The union leader said that some teachers had retired from schools and that new ones should be employed to fill the vacancies left behind but he advised that only qualified teachers should be engaged.
Osun lecturers protest 16 months unpaid salaries, to down tools
It was gathered that the Osun State College of Education, Ilesa, had been scheduled to start its industrial action on Friday (today).
The Chairman, Osun State College of Education Academic Staff Union, Ilesa, Mr Olusegun Lana, who led other lecturers in a protest march on the college premises on Thursday, said the state government had refused to fulfil its part of the agreement reached with lecturers.
Lana, who is also the chairman of the Council of Academic Staff Unions of Osun State Owned Tertiary Institutions, said the Osun State College of Education, Ila Orangun, would start its strike action on August 7, adding that the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, would commence its strike action on August 8, while the Osun State College of Technology, Esa Oke, would start on August 15.
Lana said the strike would be total because lecturers could no longer afford transport fares to their workplaces, while members of their families were finding it difficult to feed due to the issue of modulated salaries which had lasted for 34 months.
SUBEB begins phonics training for Osun teachers
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The State Universal Basic Education Board in Osun State, in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education Commission, has started a jolly phonics training workshop for about 2,400 teachers in primary schools across the state.
The SUBEB Chairman in the state, Mr. Felix Awofisayo, in an interview with our correspondent, said the new teaching method would enhance the literacy, reading and comprehension skills of the pupils.
Stressing that Grade 1 teachers in the state benefitted from a similar training in 2017 and the impact was evident in the improved reading skills of the pupils, he emphasised the need to train Grade 2 teachers so that they could continue to use phonics to teach the pupils who had been exposed to the method.
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