NAN-H-102
Teachers
By Modupe Seriboh
Ibadan, Feb. 14, 2017 (NAN) The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, has advised 253 newly inducted teachers of the institution to abide by the ethics of the profession.
Olayinka gave the advice on Tuesday at the induction of graduates of education in various levels into the teaching profession in Ibadan.
The vice-chancellor said that abiding by the ethics of the profession would always guarantee the social-economic and political development of the nation.
According to him, graduates of the Faculty of Education of the university have specific features that would make them great teachers.
“You have been exposed to the requisite professional practice skills in education and thus, trained educationists from our great university,” he said.
Olayinka said that in spite of the various challenges, the university had always provided all that was required to empower it’s product to finding solutions to any challenge on the job.
The challenges, the vice-chancellor said, included the review of the curricula in different programmes in ways that would make the university product and the teaching profession to be dynamic.
In a goodwill message, the Registrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Prof. Olusegun Ajiboye, said that teaching profession was now moving from an all comers’ affairs to a well respected profession.
“This citadel of learning has embraced the desired changes in the education sector by institutionalising induction protocol from inception to date.”
Ajiboye advised the inductees to be 21 century educationists, driven by information technology which demanded from every teacher the need to be abreast of the latest innovations in the education industry.
“I want to appeal to the inductees of today not to be `BBC’ (Born Before Computer) teachers but rather digital teachers that interact and make the world a global village.”
Akinwande Kazem, on behalf of the inductees, thanked the university authorities for impacting the requisite professional skills, calling on other inductees to work towards transforming the education sector and give the best to the nation.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the inductees possessed Bachelor degrees (B.Ed), Post Graduate Diploma in education (PGDE), Masters of Education (M.Ed) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)
The inductees are from the Department’s of Adult Education, Education Management, Guidance Counselling, Genetics and Health Education, Special Education and teacher Education. (NAN)
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============Edited by Bola Akingbehin/Morayo Omolade