TRCN urges teachers to take advantage of ongoing registration, certification process

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, (TRCN), has called on teachers to urgently take advantage of the ongoing process of registration and licencing, as the mode would change from first quarter of 2017, when those who seek certification would have to write an examinations.

Registrar/Chief Executive of the council, Professor Josiah Olusegun Ajiboye, said this at the 2016 induction ceremony organised for Faculty of Education Graduands of Enugu State University of Science & Technology, (ESUT), and the Federal College of Education, Eha-Amufu, both in Enugu State.

A statement from the Head of Information, Ojewuyi Muyiwa, indicated that the current process is in the final phase of registration, certification and licensing protocol as, “the modus of teachers’ registration; certification and licensing across the country would change from the first quarter of 2017,” the statement read.

Professor Ajiboye noted that the council had successfully developed the modules for professional qualifying examination in teaching, and was already putting finishing touches to the test items. The implication of this, he added, was that everything was ready for the re-introduction of the qualifying exams for teachers.

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 examination before being registered by the council.” Ajiboye said.

He added that the council would first conduct a data collection process across the country, using the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as a pilot.  Under this project, TRCN field officers would be dispatched to visit schools to collate data from the primary source.

“Our objective on this programme is to get authentic, reliable and accurate data of teachers for the development of ‘Teachers Information System (TIS).”