The Registrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN Josiah Ajiboye says over two million teachers have been certified and registered to teach in Nigeria.
Ajiboye, who addressed newsmen on activities of the Council in the year 2019, said that the teachers were confirmed as certified professionals in the ongoing registration exercise.
The council had earlier given an ultimatum of December 31, 2019 as the deadline to ban unqualified persons from teaching in the classroom.
He explained that the Council is also using the exercise to recover the data base of qualified teachers, following the introduction of the Professional Qualifying Examination, PQE, suggesting that the examination should be scheduled to hold every quarter to meet the yearnings of prospective teachers.
The Registrar said that the step would also increase the number of qualified teachers in schools He added that the council had successfully built a Teachers Career Path policy so as to remove teachers from the normal scheme of service to a special scheme that would improve their welfare and working conditions.
Ajiboye said
that there would be a project in 2020 tagged: “One teacher, one laptop”,
to cater for the needs of teachers.
