Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria To Conduct 1st Professional Examination in 2017.
The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has stated that it will conduct the first professional examination for teachers by the end of 2017.
According to the Registrar and Chief Executive of the council, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, the examination, which will be known as the Pre-Qualifying Examinations (PQE), would serve as a pre-requisite for admission of teachers into the profession.
He said, “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.
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“We have also gone to the Joint Consultative Committee on Education to sensitise Nigerians.
“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, with Grade A for PhD and above; Grade B for those with Masters; Grade C for those with first degree and Grade D for is those with NCE and Diploma.
He said 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.
It would be recalled that the Federal Government had set the end of 2017 as the deadline for the registration of teachers with the TRCN. (NAN)
