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European Journal of Educational Studies 4(3), <strong>2012</strong> CONCLUSION It is on record that the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by her policies and programmes is willing to improve the performance of the school system through the use of several strategies. The intention of government to offer quality education to her citizenry has led to the introduction and adoption of measures such as teacher workshops, conferences, seminars and mentorships. The viability of these strategies notwithstanding, the government and those who manage education at all levels are yet to make judicious use of each of them. Teacher mentorship at the pre-primary and primary school levels witnessed poor implementation not because it is not an effective means of improving teachers and the school system at large but it was haphazardly handled. This study established that the graduate and non-graduate teachers benefit or are bound to benefit equally from the mentorship scheme speaks volumes of its relevance to all categories of teachers. The abandonment of the mentorship programme is not in any way a healthy development for the professional growth of the teachers and the school system as well. RECOMMENDATIONS In view of the findings of this study the following recommendations were made. 1. The study emphasized that teacher mentorship is a good means of guaranteeing the efficiency of the teacher and the school at large, therefore the government and those in charge of education need to revive or re-embark on teacher mentorship scheme. 2. Since teacher mentorship means the same thing to graduate and non-graduate teachers there is the need to properly communicate to the teachers the dividends derivable from such retraining programmes through the circulation of bulletins. The bulletins, which should be financed by the organizers of the retraining programmes, may be circulated among the teachers through the Local Government branches of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) or the Local Government Education Authority (LEA). 453
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