Federal Government has announced that it will be limiting entry point for teachers to second class upper and first-class graduates.
Permanent secretary of federal ministry of education, Sonny Echono expressed this on Saturday, November 14 while monitoring the conduction of 2020 October Diet Batch B Teachers’ Professional Qualifying Examinations (PQE).
Echnono said teachers without requisite qualifications, competencies and practicing license are presently migrated out of the Nigerian Teaching Service.
The permanent secretary maintained that the entry level will be higher and teachers absorbed into the programme will get better remuneration with peculiar allowances.
Echono expressed;
By 2021, we will not engage teachers if they don’t meet particular threshold, we are now limiting entry point of teaching only to the best who are qualified, we will engage individuals with second class upper and first class divisions.
He stated;
We will make arrangements for conversion programmes for people who have these categories of results from other fields, they need to learn pedagogy, methodology, through the NTI and the TRCN, and they will undergo specific programmes that will empower them to teach.
We must enforce Mr. President’s directive that only qualified teachers will be allowed into our classrooms. The Professional Qualifying Examinations is going on smoothly across 34 states and the feedback has been good.
The permanent secretary disclosed that concerned Education agencies are finalising figures with National Income Salaries and Wages, adding that the Federal Government is more interested in learning outcomes.
He expressed that a National Implementation Committee on teachers’ revitalization/resuscitation plan will be inaugurated before the end of November, 2020.
