Anambra State Government Will Not Promote Teachers That Are Not Computer Literate

The state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Kate Omenugha, expressed that from January 2016, teachers in the state who are not computer literate will no longer enjoy promotion.
She further explained that the state government’s policy on laptop acquisition by all teachers in the state was not mandatory for the teachers.
Since the advent of the policy a lot of teachers have been complaining that government was trying to impose the purchase of laptops on them.

The commissioner said the implementation of the computer policy for teachers was a national issue, and that the National Council on Education decided that adequate number of computer laptops should be supplied to teachers in the country with soft loan provided by the government.
It was reported that the policy was to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the state. The Commissioner added that there has been misinformation and misconception, with bad blood being generated on the policy of one-teacher-one-computer. When the NCE took the decision in 2012, it was binding on all states and because of the forward-looking nature of the present administration, they decided to implement it.
This made the state government to encourage every teacher to be computer literate, otherwise there will be no promotion for non-computer literate teachers. Also newly employed teachers in the state must be computer literate so as to incorporate them in the policy. She emphasized that this is to give the children an education that is competitive and improve the level of education in the state.
Omenugha clarified that the state government would not punish any teacher that did not have a laptop by January 2016 but she insisted that any of them that was not computer literate at the end of this year would not be promoted.