By Alemma Aliu
BENIN CITY— APPARENTLY benefiting from the innovations introduced into its education system, Edo State government said it has recorded 20,000 increase in registration of pupils for primary education in the state.
Executive Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Dr Joan Oviawe stated this yesterday in a chat with journalists to herald the one year of its special intervention programme in primary education called EdoBest (Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation).
She said so far, 7,000 out of the 11,117 primary school teachers have been trained and provided with tablets on modern teaching techniques and through the process also get feedback on the performance or otherwise of the teachers in terms of regularity in teaching and punctuality in class.
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Oviawe said another set of 615 teachers are currently undergoing training while she said nothing less than 800,000 free text books…