TRCN partners NUT on teacher registration, certification and licensing
The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has concluded arrangements for renewed collaboration with the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in the area of teacher registration, certification and licensing across the country.
A press statement signed by Head Information and Public Relations unit, Mr. Ojewuyi Olumuyiwa, quoted the Registrar/Chief Executive, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, (TRCN), Professor Josiah Olusegun Ajiboye, who led TRCN management team on a courtesy visit to the Nigeria Union of Teachers Headquarters in Abuja, as reiterating the need to rid the teaching profession of quacks without any hesitation.
The TRCN boss said: “Teachers are nation’s builders; we teach, others learn. Our profession should be a front burner and other professions should be made to follow”.
He further stressed that “TRCN is NUT’s baby and the baby must not die as a still birth.” Prof. Ajiboye stated that the TRCN was ready to work with NUT towards moving the “Teaching Profession forward”.
He said: “We want to make sure that we re-launch ourselves such that there would no longer be accreditation of faculties of education by the National Universities Commission, without TRCN’s representatives being part of such accreditation team.”
He further explained the need for all agencies and parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Education to work in unity towards revamping the education system in the country.
“We are now more determined and focused on how to positively reposition teaching in Nigeria and that is why we have come to solicit the support of NUT,” he said.
Speaking earlier, in his welcome address, the National President of NUT, Comrade Olukoya Michael Alogba, welcomed Prof. Ajiboye and his team to the national secretariat of NUT in Abuja. He described TRCN and NUT as Siamese twin who cannot be separated under any guise. Comrade Olukoya said TRCN and NUT have every need to collaborate and work together in the interest of teaching as a profession and the nation’s education system as a whole.
Olukoya stated that he had followed Prof. Ajiboye as a comrade at the University of Ibadan and since he assumed office as the Registrar/CEO, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, and was sure that, “the messiah” has come.
His words: “We need to confront our issues frontally; the revenue is there and we have to jointly work for it. We need to work more in the area of teacher registration, certification, licensing and awareness,” he said, adding that the TRCN and NUT should put in place a high powered standing committee to work out the modalities for the renewed partnership among the two bodies.
