ASSESSMENT OF JOB PLACEMENT, ENVIRONMENT, AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS ON LABOUR MIGRATION AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN MUBI SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ADAMAWA STATE

Musa, K. A. Waila

Department of Science Education

Adamawa State University, Mubi, Nigeria

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ABSTRACT

One of the important problems of great magnitudes which regularly feature in the literature of teacher education in Nigeria is that of teacher retention in our school system. Teachers now abandon their teaching jobs at alarming rate for other more rewarding occupations within and outside the country. Labour migration in our schools have been attributed to the unattractiveness of the teaching profession due to poor remuneration, poor conditions of service, undue low social status and poor public image. Lickert scale techniques was used to analyze the questionnaires that were administered to teachers, headmasters, supervisors and the administrative staff of the Local Education Authority in the Mubi south Local Government Area (LGA) to investigate the impacts of job placement, environment and socio-economic factors on the labour migration among the primary school teachers. The study revealed that there is no impact of job placement, place of posting and the attitudes of school managers on teachers’ labour migration in the LGA, but the social status of teaching profession and teachers’ incentives has great impact on teachers’ labour mobility and retention. The opinions of those who were interviewed were integrated in the analysis. It was suggested that the social status of our teachers should be raised and salaries should be more attractive than any other professions since they are the trainers of the other professions