Home
News
Sports
Metro Plus
Entertainment
Politics
Business
Videos
HealthWise
Editorial
Columns
Opinion
Subscribe
Search
Search the site
Search for:
Search …
punchng.com © 1971-2020 The Punch newspaper
PunchNG Menu:
Video
Spice
Special Features
Education
Sex & Relationship
Interview
Columns
Opinion
Privacy Settings
Undergraduates studying education in public varsities to get N75K per semester
Deborah Tolu-Kolawole
5 October 2021
Kindly share this story:
Adamu Adamu1
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu
NCE students to get N50K
The Federal Government has approved the sum of N75,000 as stipend per semester for students undergoing degree programmes in Education in public universities in Nigeria.
Also, the Nigeria Certificate in Education students will get N50,000 as stipend per semester as part of the deliberate effort of the government to attract the best brains into the teaching profession as promised by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), last year.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, announced this on Tuesday at the World Teachers’ Day celebration held at Eagle Square, Abuja.
Read Also
World Teachers' Day: Matters arising
Sub-Sahara Africa needs additional 15 million teachers by 2030 -UN
MTN, Nestle support World Teachers Day
Adamu, whose speech was read by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, said his ministry would collaborate with the state governments to ensure automatic employment for the students on graduation.
He said: “Undergraduate students of B.Ed/B.A. Ed/BSc. Ed in Public institutions are to receive stipends of N75,000.00 per semester while NCE students will get N50,000.00 as stipends per semester.
“Federal Government should find the modality through which respective states’ governments could provide automatic employment for NCE graduates at Basic Education level.”
Comments