Abstract:
The paper identified different fashion of problems that emerge either before or after and during recruitment of primary school teachers in Nigeria. It called the issues 'loose ends' which implies that the problem of primary school teachers' recruitment are almost unmanageable. It defined teacher recruitment, as the process of selecting and engaging qualified teachers to fill existing vacancies for the purpose attaining educational goals. It argued that the goals of education cannot be achieved with the myriads of loose ends which it identified some as recruitment of persons without education background, interference during recruitment by the political/rich class, prolong delay in recruitment of teachers, services of the schools boards and other recruitment agencies are ignored, not knowing the manpower needs of most schools. The paper consequently suggested among others that the National Union of Teachers (NUT) should consider it as a primary responsibility to dialogue with the Board and government to recruit teachers based on the provisions of the law and post them according to the needs of the various schools; the boards and other administrative agencies for teacher recruitment need to engage the mass media to enlighten the political and rich class to desist from interfering with teacher recruitment exercise and that the legislative houses, need to make laws that would statutorily determine the duration or intervals when teachers shall be recruited.
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