FG: We will only accept First class,2nd class upper graduate as teachers henceforth

Lawal Shereef

The federal government will begin limiting the entry point of teaching only to individuals with second class upper and first-class divisions,the ministry of education permanent secretary,Sonny Echono disclosed on Saturday.

 Echnono said teachers without requisite qualifications, competencies and practicing license are presently migrated out of the Nigerian Teaching Service. 

"President Buhari had earlier stated that only the best should be allowed to teach. By 2021, we will not engage teachers if they don’t meet the particular threshold, we are now limiting entry point of teaching only to the best who are qualified, we will engage individuals with second class upper and first-class divisions.” , we need to carry them along Echono made the comment in Abuja while monitoring the conduct of the 2020 October Diet Batch B Teachers’ Professional Qualifying Examinations, (PQE). 
He added: “We will make arrangements for conversion programmes for people who have these categories of results from other fields, they need to learn pedagogy, methodology, through the NTI and the TRCN, and they will undergo specific programmes that will empower them to teach.” He maintained that the entry-level will be higher and they will get better remuneration with peculiar allowances, adding that concerned education agencies are finalising figures with National Income Salaries and Wages.  The Federal government, according to him, is more interested in learning outcomes, and that a National Implementation Committee on teachers’ revitalization/resuscitation plan will be inaugurated before the end of November 2020. 


He said: “We must enforce Mr. President’s directive that only qualified teachers will be allowed into our classrooms. The Professional Qualifying Examinations is going on smoothly across 34 states and the feedback has been good.” It has been reported  that teachers all over Nigeria without qualifications stipulated by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) will be shown the way to the door soon. This was revealed by the registrar of TRCN, Professor Josiah Olusegun Ajiboye, who said that the objective of the federal government is to make future leaders of Nigerian children by improving the standard of education.

 He also said that henceforth teaching will become an enviable profession in the country going by the approval of Teachers’ Career Path through the national council on education.

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