EDUCATION: FG to employ all qualified, licenced teachers
Sonny Echono, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of
Education, says every qualified and licenced teacher
would be employed as part of efforts to rid the system
of unqualified teachers.
Mr Echono said this while monitoring the May Diet of
the Teachers Professional Qualifying Examination
(PQE) organised by the Teachers Registration Council
of Nigeria (TRCN) in Abuja on Saturday.
“We are dead serious about implementing the policy
and we are also working very hard to ensure that we
also are ready.
“The first thing that is going to happen is that TRCN
and NTI are compiling a database of qualified teachers,
those that have been certified, those who have taken
this examination who are unemployed.
“And we are going to do it and even segregate them
state by state and make them available to each state.
“That is going to be the starting point, that anybody
who has been certified as a teacher should be
employed because we have no excuse for that.
“We have a huge debt of qualified teachers, so all those
that we have should be engaged to work, and all those
who are not qualified we are sorry, we have to move
them out of the system.
“Yes, there may be some issues relating to the number,
that is why we want to ramp up the production
process, we are taking so many measure.
“And, enforcement is very key. We have taken two
steps towards ensuring enforcement. We have
upgraded what we call quality assurance department.
It used to be called inspectorate, we now have state
offices in all the states of the federation.
“The second step is to re-establish the secondary
education commission. It has just been approved by Mr
President to come on board and we are working out
the modalities for how they will operate.
“What they will be doing, apart from mobilising
additional resources to that segment of our education
sector, they will be enforcing standards.
“Indeed we are looking at even the possibility of collapsing our quality
control and inspectorate division with the commission, to ensure we
effectively monitor together with our colleagues in the state.
Mr Echono reiterated that the deadline for flushing unqualified teachers
from the classrooms remains December 31, adding that additional diets
of the PQE may be conducted in order for teachers to meet up with the
deadline.
The Permanent secretary commended TRCN for the smooth and
simplified process of the examination describing it as being up to
international standards.
“As you can see, it is all electronic. There are no huge crowd or delays;
you come in, do your biometrics and when you log in, your picture is
displayed. So, there is no issue of anyone sitting on your behalf.’’
30,000 teachers wrote the examination in 50 centres nationwide.
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Education, says every qualified and licenced teacher
would be employed as part of efforts to rid the system
of unqualified teachers.
Mr Echono said this while monitoring the May Diet of
the Teachers Professional Qualifying Examination
(PQE) organised by the Teachers Registration Council
of Nigeria (TRCN) in Abuja on Saturday.
“We are dead serious about implementing the policy
and we are also working very hard to ensure that we
also are ready.
“The first thing that is going to happen is that TRCN
and NTI are compiling a database of qualified teachers,
those that have been certified, those who have taken
this examination who are unemployed.
“And we are going to do it and even segregate them
state by state and make them available to each state.
“That is going to be the starting point, that anybody
who has been certified as a teacher should be
employed because we have no excuse for that.
“We have a huge debt of qualified teachers, so all those
that we have should be engaged to work, and all those
who are not qualified we are sorry, we have to move
them out of the system.
“Yes, there may be some issues relating to the number,
that is why we want to ramp up the production
process, we are taking so many measure.
“And, enforcement is very key. We have taken two
steps towards ensuring enforcement. We have
upgraded what we call quality assurance department.
It used to be called inspectorate, we now have state
offices in all the states of the federation.
“The second step is to re-establish the secondary
education commission. It has just been approved by Mr
President to come on board and we are working out
the modalities for how they will operate.
“What they will be doing, apart from mobilising
additional resources to that segment of our education
sector, they will be enforcing standards.
“Indeed we are looking at even the possibility of collapsing our quality
control and inspectorate division with the commission, to ensure we
effectively monitor together with our colleagues in the state.
Mr Echono reiterated that the deadline for flushing unqualified teachers
from the classrooms remains December 31, adding that additional diets
of the PQE may be conducted in order for teachers to meet up with the
deadline.
The Permanent secretary commended TRCN for the smooth and
simplified process of the examination describing it as being up to
international standards.
“As you can see, it is all electronic. There are no huge crowd or delays;
you come in, do your biometrics and when you log in, your picture is
displayed. So, there is no issue of anyone sitting on your behalf.’’
30,000 teachers wrote the examination in 50 centres nationwide.
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