APPROVED CHARGES FOR POST-UTME SCREENING: FEDERAL UNIVERSITY GUSAU TO REFUND N500 TO ALL CANDIDATES WHO PAID FOR 2017/2018 APTITUDE TEST
The Honorable Minister of Education has directed that candidates who paid for the 2017/2018 Post UTME Aptitude Test Screening Exercise conducted by the University should be refunded the sum of N500, the amount paid in excess of the N2,000 approved earlier.
All candidates who paid should therefore report at the Bursar’s Office of the University and be refunded the excess charges. They should please come along with the evidence of payment of the N2,500.
The exercise commences immediately and will last for three weeks from the date of publication of this notice.
Signed:
Ibrahim B. Kaura
Registrar
Random Thoughts On Kaduna Teachers' Screening
Testing the efficiency of a serving teacher without classroom activities compares with testing the swimming capacity of fish in the mud. Teaching requires demonstration of knowledge and pedagogical skills. All that has been made public so far on Kaduna test items were instruments assessing knowledge of special subject areas. Only NCE Primary Education Studies in our Colleges of Education teaches the core subjects (English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies...). A good test should factor the training context in which the teachers were trained. Testing teachers on all subjects even if it is on Primary Two content may come with surprises. In-service training is one option between sacking and tolerating bad teachers. Some of us in the industry find it difficult to accept the assumption of 21,000 untrainable teachers in the teaching workforce of a given state. The only options in Kaduna are that one is either qualified or sacked. I have not seen any Tweet or Facebook update from ...

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