Over 11,350 candidates sit for teachers qualifying exam -TRCN

passing a provisional qualifying examination.

“Even if you’re a professor in the university, you just have to write this examination before you can get the certificate and the licence. So, part of the process for weeding out this quackery in the profession is what we are on. And another thing that we are doing in that regard is also school monitoring. You will recall that in February 2020, we started the school monitoring programme. two boards.

“Monitoring is a continuous exercise. So, we are still on, we will not relent. And we have also processes for checking our certificates, the authenticity of those certificates. We have certain features in our certificates and the licence that actually will enable us to know whether it’s really a fake one or a genuine one. So, we are on top of it,” he said.

Also speaking, the Parament Secretary Federal Ministry of Education, Adejo, commened TRCN for the improvement in the accreditation process for the examination.

“This year, documentation has a double level; first, you identify yourself, fill the form, then you also cross check your sleep with an app that was developed to give it authenticity. So, I think they are improving on incremental basis every year on the process for professional qualification exam for teachers,” he said.

Adejo restated Federal Government’s position that before you can be a teacher in any school, you must meet a basic minimum requirement and that is what the Teachers Registration Council is doing.

He added that as a result of efforts being made by TRCN, the level of quackery at the junior and senior secondary school levels is reducing, adding that the government is still working on cleaning the database of qualified teachers at early childhood and primary school level.

One of the candidates, Mrs Titilope Yunusa, said she was sitting the exams for the second time as she could not make it in her first sitting, stating that she does not want to fail this time around.

“I experienced difficulties in my first attempt because I don’t really know how to operate the computer, but now I have learnt and can operate it; that is why I am here to take the examination again, and I am confident of making a good result.

L-R: Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero; Emeritus Archbishop of Abuja, His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyekan; President-General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), and Co- Chairman Nigeria Inter- Religious Council (NIREC), Alhaji Muhammed Sa’ad Abubakar; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha and President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Archbishop Daniel Okoh during the NIREC second quarter meeting with the theme, ‘Media and Effective Leadership for Nation Building held yesterday in Abuja.