Posted by Kolade Stephen. on 5 May, 2023 under Naija News
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The regulatory body for the teaching profession in Nigeria, the Teachers Registration Council (TRCN), has revealed that over 90 per cent of private school teachers in South-west states are unqualified.
South-West states include Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti.
According to the registrar of the TRCN, Professor Josiah Ajiboye, the teachers are unqualified due to their lack of qualifications to enable them to register with the council.
Speaking in Abuja on Thursday when the council signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with a South African-based educational organisation, Instill Education, to upskill in-service teachers in Nigeria.
Ajiboye, who signed the document in Abuja in the company of his management team, said a pilot phase of implementation of the MoU will soon commence with capacity building for eight weeks.
Ajiboye said the MoU has three major components- pre-service teachers, integrating pre-service with in-service teachers and their capacity-building programmes while expressing confidence that the involvement of Instill Education would bridge the gap between pre-service and in-service teachers.
“With regards to our teachers, if you look at what we have said here today, three major components actually were identified: the pre-service teachers, even integrating pre-service with the in-service.
“We have looked at pre-service teachers, the in-service teachers and their training programmes and we have been able to see that there is a gap,â€