Governor Ben Ayade inspecting the Cross River State Teachers Continuous Training Institute in Biase.
By Calabar blog
Cross River State governor, Sir Ben Ayade, says the combination of ambience and learning at the Teachers Continuous Training Institute in Biase Local Government Area is to create an atmostphere that is academic but yet very inspiring and welcoming.
Ayade who spoke while inspecting ongoing furnishing work at the institute commended the speed and quality of equipment so far installed.
“I am really excited about the possibility of having a world class teaching environment in Cross River State because we understand the influence of environment on quality of teaching and quality of learning.
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“I am very very impressed with the quality and the speed of furnishing. My hope is that will have the urgency and need to enroll enmasse. We can beam with satisfaction that the Nigerian Teachers Training Institute will now take place here and I am sure that at the fullness of time, the Nigerians will recognize the value of quality education.”
Side view of the Cross River State Teachers Continuous Training Institute.
The governor stressed that “education is the basis for more societal transformation and that is why Cross River State is being ruled by two professors. And as a government we place emphasis on the quality of teaching and quality of research, hence this school.”
Speaking further on the reason for establishing the Institute, Ayade maintained that “the Teachers Continuous Training Institute, the first of its kind, is intended to train teachers and continuously retrain teachers because the quality of students is determined by the quality of teaching and the quality of teaching is a reflection of the quality of the training.
“Traditionally, when teachers are out of the university and get employed as teachers, they have no opportunity for further training, and no continuous training. So the teachers themselves are sometimes not up to date, even with the subjects they teach.