TRCN - TEACHERS TO UNDERGO PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATIONS FROM 2017

The Registrar/Chief Ex­ecutive, Teachers Reg­istration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Prof. Josiah Olusegun Ajiboye, has urged teachers across the country to embrace the final phase of the ongoing registration and li­censing protocol put in place by the council as teachers will from 2017 be subjected to pro­fessional qualification exami­nation before they are licensed.

Ajiboye handed down the warning recently during the 2016 induction ceremony or­ganised for Faculty of Educa­tion graduates of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) and Fed­eral College of Education, Eha-Amufu, both in Enugu State.

In a statement made TRCN’s spokes­man, Mr Ojewuyi Muyiwa, the TRCN boss noted that the Council has successfully devel­oped the modules for Profes­sional Qualifying Examination in teaching and was already putting finishing touches to the test items, adding that ev­erything was ready for the re-introduction of the Profes­sional Qualifying Examination for the Nigerian teachers.

His words, “I want to assure you that before the end of the first quarter of 2017, TRCN would re-launch the ‘Teaching Professional Qualifying Exam­ination (PQE)’. It simply means any practicing teacher without being duly registered; certified and licensed by TRCN would be made to write the exam before being registered by the Council.”

In his welcome address, the Dean, Faculty of Education, ESUT, Prof. C. I. Ani, com­mended the TRCN boss for the successes so far recorded by the Council within his first four months at the helm of af­fairs.

He charged the 239 induct­ees from the institution to keep the fire burning and remain good ambassadors of the fac­ulty and the state at large even as he said that teachers are moulders.

In the same vein, the Pro­vost, Federal College of Edu­cation, Eha-Amufu, Prof. Cannon B. N. Mbah, while welcoming the TRCN team to the 2016 induction of the Col­lege, stated that the decision to induct education graduates at the point of graduation was a welcome development as it helps in actualising the pro­fessionalization of teaching across the country.