EducationJobsNewsFG To Employ Only First-Class Graduates As Teachers From 2021

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The Federal Government of Nigerian on Saturday said it is only professional teachers with First Class certificates will be employed starting from 2021.

The government added that it would also consider graduates with 2.1 qualifications, saying that the measure was part of its renewed efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning in public schools.

This was disclosed by the Permanent Secretary to the Federal Ministry of Education, Arc Sonny Echonu, during a monitoring exercise of the Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE), organized by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN).

The exercise will have no fewer that 17,602 teachers from across the 34 states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

While speaking to journalists, Echono said that the decision was to ensure that the only the best brain in Nigerian classrooms teachers, emphasizing that from 2021, only the qualified teacher would be allowed to teach in the country.

In his word, a national implementation committee would be inaugurated in the coming weeks to ensure the achieved the Federal Government agenda on teachers’ registration and revitalization, especially the entry qualification of teachers

He said, “With effect from next year, we will not admit or engage people as teachers if they don’t meet a particular threshold. We are now limiting entry to only the best.

“You must have a first class or 2:1 as minimum and if you have qualification in other subjects that is not in education, we will arrange for a conversion programme to be administered by NTI, TRCN and any university that has faculties of education or this programme because you also have to learn ways of communicating and managing students.

“We are migrating teachers who are not qualified or do not have the requisite qualifications, competency, not licensed or registered to seamless. Out of our classrooms to make way for qualified personnel because we want to achieve learning and teaching and learning occurs in our schools.”

Impressed with the conduct of the PQE, he encouraged teachers who were yet to sit for the examinations to do so, adding that government through the TRCN, would continue to conduct the examinations for teachers.

Registrar/Chief Executive Officer TRCN, Prof Josiah Ajiboye who disclosed that Nigerians in diaspora have begun to sit for the examinations via online platforms without necessarily travelling back to Nigeria, noted that their certificates would be sent across even as the Council would write to the Teaching Council of countries where Nigerians were seeking for or engaged in their education system as teachers.

“There are Nigerians in diaspora who before they can get any teaching position must show evidence they are professional teachers and that they are registered with their teaching regulatory authority before they left the country.

“To provide that evidence you need to write our exams because we cannot issue you the letter of professional standing without sitting for TRCN examination and so we have placed the examination online for Nigerians in the diaspora and the response has been very huge. We have Nigerians cutting across countries of the world now writing the examinations.”

Ajiboye who said the low number of candidates sitting for the present PQE diet could be as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, revealed that the next PQE would take place around the months of February and March next year.

“We have promised Nigerians we will have the examination minimum of twice in a year; that is why we have to go ahead. We have begun registration for the next diet which is going to come up around February/ March next year and the figure we are getting is rising.”

 

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)

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