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There is no gainsaying the fact that teachers are crucial to the process of education. In appraising the nexus between teaching and learning, teachers rank highest in importance because they organically facilitate the most critical part of education.There is no gainsaying the fact that teachers are crucial to the process of education. In appraising the nexus between teaching and learning, teachers rank highest in importance because they organically facilitate the most critical part of education.
Indeed, as American historian, Henry Adams rightly stated, “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” I doubt that my primary school teacher, Mrs. Ala, could ever imagine that her effort in making me fall in love with mathematics would be the driving force for me to become a science student, an Electrical/Electronics Engineer, a Chartered Accountant, and the Chief Executive of a telecommunications company operating in 14 African countries.
So, teachers must also be provided with access to the internet and digital devices. More importantly, they must be trained on how to use these resources because, as they say, you cannot give what you do not have. For effective and productive global collaboration between teachers and students in Africa and their peers across the world, teachers must be motivated, equipped and empowered.
These include infrastructure, funding and curricula, which are now being addressed by many governments, with varying degrees of success. As a matter of fact, the obvious gaps identified during the pandemic inspired Airtel Africa’s decision to invest in digitization of education with UNICEF, the most experienced international organiaation in matters affecting children.
Gunmen have kidnapped five students in northern Nigeria, police said, days after more than 20 others were abducted in a neighbouring region.
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