The federal government has declared that teachers without
requisite qualifications and practicing license will be removed from the
Nigeria Teaching Service.
The government said henceforth, First Class and Second Class
Upper graduates will get teaching jobs.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono
made this known on Saturday in Abuja.
He spoke while monitoring the conduct of the 2020 October Diet
Batch B Teachers’ Professional Qualifying Examinations (PQE).
“By 2021, we will not engage teachers if they don’t meet
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,” he said.
The official disclosed that arrangements will be made for
conversion programmes for such graduates.
Echono said since most studied in fields not related to
teaching, they need to learn pedagogy and methodology through the National
Teachers Institute (NTI) and the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria
(TRCN).
“They will undergo specific programmes that will empower
them to teach. We must enforce Mr. President’s directive that only qualified
teachers will be allowed into our classrooms,” he added.
Echono assured that teachers will get better remuneration
with peculiar allowances.
The Permanent Secretary announced that the government was
finalising figures with National Income Salaries and Wages.
He confirmed that the National Implementation Committee on
Teachers’ Revitalization/Resuscitation Plan will be inaugurated this month.
Having first class or second class upper should not be the prerequisite for teaching in nigerian. Some second class lower division are better than the so called first class and second class upper graduates. Let every aspiring teacher go through a teachers training institute and pass pedagogy , methodology and other requirement examinations to qualify for teaching.some graduate just pass through the university.
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