Teachers Registration Council to renew collaboration with NUT

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) said it would be collaborating with the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) on the registration, certification and licensing of teachers across the country.

Mr Muyiwa Ojewuyi, Head, Information and Public Relations unit of the council, quoted the council’s registrar, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, to have said this in a statement released to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday.

Ajiboye, also the Chief Executive of TRCN, said this was to rid the teaching profession of quacks without any hesitation when he paid a courtesy visit to the NUT headquarters in Abuja, it said.

The statement said that the collaboration between both organisations would reposition the teaching profession in the country better.

“We are now more determined and focused on how to positively reposition the teaching profession in Nigeria and that is why we have come to solicit the support of NUT.”

According to him in the statement, TRCN is NUT’s baby and the baby must not die as a still birth.

The registrar said there was the need to act urgently to address the challenges in the teaching profession, it said.

“Teachers are the nation’s builders; we teach, others learn. Our profession should be in the front burner and other professions should be made to follow.

“We want to make sure that we re-launch ourselves, such that there will no longer be accreditation of faculties of education by the National Universities Commission (NUC) without TRCN’s representatives being part of such accreditation team.”

Ajiboye in the statement said that there was the need for all the parastatal agencies under the Federal Ministry of Education to work towards revamping the education system in the country.

It also quoted Mr Olukoya Alogba, the national president the NUT, in his welcome address, to have said that the two organisations needed to work together in the interest of the teaching profession and the nations’ educational system.

Alogba in the statement described the two organisations as Siamese twins who could not be separated under any guise.

According to him, we need to confront our issues frontally, the revenue is there and we have to jointly work for it, it stated.

“We need to work more in the area of teacher registration, certification, licensing and awareness.”

The statement said that TRCN and NUT should put in place a high powered standing committee to work out the modalities for the renewed partnership among the two organisations.

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