INVESTIGATION INTO THE RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION OF QUALITY TEACHERS INTO THE UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IN RIVERS STATE

BESTMAN IHEANYI NWAFOR; GOODHOPE CHINENYE IGWE

INVESTIGATION INTO THE RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION OF QUALITY TEACHERS INTO THE UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IN RIVERS STATE

BESTMAN IHEANYI NWAFOR, GOODHOPE CHINENYE IGWE

Abstract

This paper investigated the recruitment and selection of quality teachers into public primary and junior secondary schools in Rivers State, Nigeria as at 2013. As an ex-post facto and descriptive survey, the study population embraced all the Board members and substantive Directors of Rivers State Universal Basic Education Board Headquarters. The sample was identical with the population as all the management staff was involved in the study. The instruments used for data collection were document analysis and questionnaire while the data collected were analyzed using percentages and mean. Pearson-product moment correlation and t-test statistics were used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed among others that a total of twenty two thousand, four hundred and twenty-six (22,426) and seven thousand, three hundred and fifty (7,350) applicants irrespective of their degree/qualification types were recruited and selected as teachers under the Universal Basic Education system respectively. Based on the findings, it was recommended that government should recruit only qualified teachers into the schools to meet up with the demand for them. This recruitment should however be along subject lines.

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