Rivers Now Has 21,000 Teachers – TRC Coordintor

With the employment of 13,000 teachers, the Rivers State Government now has about 21,000 teachers in its employ, while the state needs up to 25,000 teachers to meet the required number for its schools.
The coordinator of the Teachers Registration Council (TRC) in Rivers State, Dr. Felix Nwabochi who disclosed this during an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt regretted that the state had for long suffered much dearth of teachers.
Dr. Nwabochi lamented the situation whereby only two or three teachers were found in a school while some had none at all, a development he said almost led the state’s educational system to  collapse.
The Teachers Registration Council coordinator commended the magnanimous idea of the state governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi in ensuring that the educational system of the state which was almost collapsing and decided to employ 13,000 teachers describing the stride as a step in the right direction.
According to him, the appointment of the new teachers would boost the academic activities of our schools, pointing out that “if the teachers go into the system, we may be having close to 21,000 teachers in Rivers State. We have the registration and data of all the teachers in the state.”
“There are quacks in the teaching profession just as in other professions. There are those without the prerequisite qualification of the National Certificate of Education (NCE), which is the minimum qualification,” Nwabochi noted.
He disclosed that the law would soon descend on teachers who do not possess the required teaching qualification, saying that employers of such persons would also be held responsible as the practice contributed to a great extent the falling standard of education.
The Teachers Registration Council is a regulatory body for teachers in Nigeria and in-charge of registration of teachers.