TRCN To Sack Untrained Teachers

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), says it is taking necessary steps to weed out non-professional teachers in Nigeria’s educational system.

The TRCN Chairman, Prof Anderson M. Nwokocha, explained that the move was part of the efforts to reform and reposition the educational system for the better in the country.

In an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt, Prof Nwokocha, said already the amended constitution on educational system in the country stipulates two years imprisonment for any non-professional teacher found in classroom as a teacher.

He noted that the employment of non-professional teachers for teaching jobs was the greatest challenge facing the country’s educational system.

Nwokocha also listed ineffective school inspection and poor supervision of teachers in classrooms as another challenges affecting the system.

The former university don, however, called on governments to strengthen both federal and state institutional managements towards regaining Nigeria’s lost glory in education.

“Looking at the prevailing challenges and the determination to reform for the better, we decided to take necessary actions which have constitutional backing aimed at sanitising the teaching profession as well as strengthen the reformation of the educational system in the country,” he said.

The TRCN chairman said that registration was open to any person who read education as a career profession, adding that the council was also organising training and workshop for teachers quarterly as part of the effort to equip them for their teaching jobs.

Enoch Epelle

Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi (right) receiving a report from the Chairman, Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC), Prof. Nimi Briggs during the commission’s presentation of end of tenure report at Government House, Port Harcourt, yesterday.