Teachers to Write Exam for Registration with TRCN
Teachers wishing to register with the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) are now to sit for a professional examination.
Dr Steve Nwokocha, National Director, Professional Operations of TRCN, dropped this hint in Lagos when he called on the Lagos Deputy Governor, Mrs Sarah Sosan.
Nwokocha also said that the first of such examination would be conducted next month.
According to him, those who pass the examination will be awarded licences to practise, while they will also pay their annual subscription to the council.
“Registration will no longer be automatic for teachers, as all these conditions are just to bring teaching and teachers to world class standard, like other noble professions,” he said.
He said the TRCN had, before now, registered more than 700,000 teachers nationwide without passing through any test, stressing that such situation has not helped in improving the standard of education in the country.
“What we are doing is not something strange. It is common with other professional bodies, and we cannot afford to derail. Our responsibility is to regulate and control the teaching profession nationwide, and we are doing this by determining who should be registered and who should not,” he said.
Nwokocha commended the government for its efforts at improving the standard of education in the state which, according to him, has the highest number of registered teachers in the country.
Sosan, who is also Commissioner for Education, commended the five-man TRCN team for its efforts at standardising the teaching profession in Nigeria and urged the council to train more teachers to improve teaching and learning.
