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Diploma
By Okeoghene Oghenekaro
Abuja, Nov. 15, 2016 (NAN) The Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) says it has begun discussion with the National Universities Commission (NUC) on implementation of a Post-Doctoral Diploma in Education for dons.
The Registrar of TRCN, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday.
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“On the issue of post-doctoral diploma in education we are working in conjunction with the national universities commission.
“We have just had discussion with the NUC Executive Sectary because we discovered there will be some problems in terms of implementation because we discovered that there are long standing professors who have been teaching in the system for several years, there are those who are middle cadre academic staff and there are those who are just joining the system.
“Whereas you could quickly target those, who are just joining the system, it may be difficult for you to ask old professors to come and begin to write exams and do some other diploma again.
“So we discovered there is a need for us to work on the grey areas with regard to the introduction of the post-doctoral diploma in education.
“Presently, we are still in discussion with the NUC executive secretary and as soon as that discussion is concluded we will inform Nigerians on the next step.’’
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Ajiboye said the implementation of the programme was stalled by some issues that needed to be jointly addressed by TRCN and the NUC.
He, however, said that any university wishing to start the programme could carry on as the board of TRCN had already approved the programme.
The registrar said the managements of University of Benin and Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, had written to TRCN indicating interest in implementing the programme.
“As I said, we are working on the grey areas to make it a nation-wide thing so we can deploy the programme in all the universities.’’ (NAN)
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Edited by Shittu Obassa/Emmanuel Yashim
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