NAN-H-91
Teachers
By Okeoghene Oghenekaro
Abuja, Nov. 15, 2016 (NAN) The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) says it has developed a system towards ascertaining the number of qualified and registered teachers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Registrar of TRCN, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday.
Ajiboye said the system, referred to as the ‘Teacher Information System’, would be replicated in other states of the federation soon.
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“We flagged off something last week at least to focus on FCT, what we call teacher information system.
“To be able to get the details of the number of teachers that are qualified and registered with TRCN and to see those who are not qualified and those who are qualified and not yet registered with TRCN.
“We are in the process of getting that data. The idea is that we are going to use FCT as a pilot study.
“When we finish with the FCT, we would be able to deploy to all other states of the federation and get our accurate data.
“It is at that time we would be able to tell Nigerians the number of teachers we have that are qualified across the states
“The number of teachers that are qualified and registered with TRCN and those that are qualified and not registered with TRCN and also those who are not qualified at all across the states of the federation.
“But we are in the process of doing that.’’
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On the Teacher Development Programmes, the registrar said that the Federal Government was committed to improving the quality of teachers as it would in turn improve the quality of education.
Ajiboye said the National Teachers Institute and the Universal Basic Education had organised programmes to train and retrain teachers during the course of the year.
He said it was the responsibility of the council to monitor teacher development programmes across boards.
“It is the duty of TRCN to monitor and credit teachers who participate in such continuous development programmes, so we can record on their files how many of such programmes they have attended.’’(NAN)
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Edited by Lydia Beshel/Emmanuel Yashim
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