The Federal Government through the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, Arc. Sonny Echonu has disclosed that only professional teachers with First Class certificates will be employed beginning from next year, 2021.
The government also said it would also consider people with 2.1 qualifications and further explained that the measure was part of its renewed efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning in Nigerian schools.
He above was made known during a monitoring exercise of the Professional Qualifying Examination,PQE, organised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria,TRCN.
No fewer than 17, 602 teachers from across 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), are expected to participate in the examinations.
Echono stressed that the decision was aimed at having only the best brains in Nigerian classrooms as teachers.
According to him, a national implementation committee would be inaugurated in the coming week to ensure federal government’s agenda on teachers registration and revitalisation was achieved, especially, the qualification for teachers in schools.
Impressed with the conduct of the PQE, he encouraged teachers who were yet to sit for the examinations to do so, adding that government through the TRCN, would continue to conduct the examinations for teachers.