*_Roseline Olawuni_*
Osun Commissioner for Education, Hon. Folorunsho Oladoyin has assured applicants who sat for the teacher’s recruitment examination that the exercise would be carried out without favouritsm.
He said Governor Adegboyega Oyetola had made it clear that only the qualified will be selected to teach in Osun public schools .
According to the commissioner
about 31,000 applicants applied through the purchase of application forms but maintained that only the best will be appointed based on merit.
The Commissioner stated this while speaking with newsmen shortly after the monitoring of the recruitment examinations for prospective teachers into public primary and secondary schools in the state.
Oladoyin expressed satisfaction with the level of decorum and discipline displayed by the applicants throughout the different centres where the examinations held.
He said the state government had given the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board the full autonomy to conduct the recruitment examinations devoid of any interference from any quarter.
“I still want to reemphasize that only the best is good for our students, and so we are not going to compromise on quality. This appointment will be done purely on merit, because it is about the future of our state. 31,000 applied through purchase of forms for the appointments while about 29,000 printed their examination slips to partake in the examination”. The Commissioner stated.
The former lawmaker then used the occasion to reiterate the commitment of the Adegboyega Oyetola administration to the improvement of the State’s Education Sector, as it would continue to strive to make students who he described as the future of the state better individuals.
Among the centres visited by the Commissioner were ten of the twenty two CBT Centers in the state which are the college of Education, Ilesha,the CBt center at Kunike Intentional School, Osogbo, Foreign Links Moro, Obafemi Awolowo University,Ile- Ife,Top concepts info tech Services, Modakeke and Jamb professional Test Center, Ilobu Road,Osogbo##