The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has said efforts to regulate the teaching profession and prevent it from being open to quacks necessitates its stringent qualification examinations.
Registrar of TRCN, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, who said this, noted that having qualified teachers in all schools across the country, holds the key to Nigeria’s development.
Ajiboye,who spoke at a one-day Capacity Training Workshop for Education Correspondents Association of Nigeria (ECAN), expressed that teachers are critical to the human and capital development of every nation and as such their qualification and standard process must be accorded the highest form of scrutiny.
He maintained that the introduction of teacher qualifying examination and the mandatory licencing of teachers before they can practice have exposed the quacks in the sector.
He said Nigeria can only develop and improve if it increases the quality of its teachers as well as the methods of teaching and learning in schools.
”A situation where anyone whether qualified and unqualified is free to stand in front of a classroom to teach is sheer anarchy and Nigeria is already paying a big price for that neglect of the sector, ” he added.
