The teachers were hired under the Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation scheme, otherwise known as EdoBEST.
Mr Obaseki, who disclosed this on Tuesday in Benin, said the new teachers were to help in strengthening teaching and learning in schools across the 18 local government areas of the state. He said the training of a large number of teachers in Edo was aimed at resolving the challenges of having qualified, committed and dedicated teachers in the education sector in the state.
According to him, “Our priority programme is based on education and for this reason in April 2018 we launched EdoBEST and trained the first batch of teachers and today their presentation has shown how different our teachers are.”He said that with the renovation and construction of facilities in schools across the state and the various innovations that have been brought into the sector, his administration has been able to give the pupils and students the best they deserved.
“Edo teachers are proud to be teachers. We want to train and retain professional teachers and people who will change our community.