The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has
concluded to hold the first professional examination for
teachers before the end of 2017.


The examination, known as the Pre-Qualifying
Examinations (PQE), would serve as a pre-requisite for
admission of teachers into the profession.


The Registrar and Chief Executive of the council, Prof.
Josiah Ajiboye, made this known in an interview, in Abuja,
on Tuesday.


According to him, “With regard to the PQE -Professional
qualifying examination- the people given the contract, the
consultants, they have delivered the test items and we
have the custody presently.


“We have also gone to the Joint Consultative Committee
on Education to sensitise Nigerians.


“Soon, we are going to begin to sensitise the teachers to
know that before the end of this year the first
examination will be written.


“We are in the process of sensitisation now and we want
to carry the media along and all Nigerians along and in
fact our teachers along.


“So that they will know that now those who have not
registered through the existing procedure will have to
write qualifying examination as it is being done in other
professions.’’


Ajiboye explained that the PQE would be written based on
the four categories of teachers, adding that the old
system of ‘’one size fits all’’ no longer holds.


“Now we have designed a test in such a way that will be
suitable to each category of teachers that we are dealing
with because when we register teachers we registered
them based on the categories.


“Essentially, we have four categories; we have Grade A
that is PhD and above, then we have Grade B that is
those with Masters.


“Then we have Grade C, that is those with first degree
and we have the Grade D that is those with NCE and
Diploma.


“The test has been prepared based on the syllabi that
covers the whole education spectrum and you are going to
be test based on your own category.’’


The Federal Government had set the end of 2017 as the
deadline for the registration of teachers with the TRCN.
Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah,
had said that government would flush teachers without
the registration out of the Nation’s classrooms after the
deadline.


www.elitesportal.com.ng/2017/03/teachers-to-undergo-first-professional.html


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