Skip to main content

Teachers Registration Council to renew collaboration with NUT

TRCN

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.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Court grants Fani-Kayode N50m bail

Fani-kayode sandwiched by EFCC officials Justice James Tsoho of the Federal High Court Abuja on Thursday granted a N50m bail to former spokesman of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode. Fani-Kayode was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a five-count charge of money laundering to the tune of N26m. Fani-Kayode is the sole defendant in the fresh charges numbered, FHC/ABJ/CR/140/2016. The EFCC accused the defendant of diverting 26 million Naira allegedly received from the ONSA while Sambo Dasuki was in office. The anti-graft agency also accused him of handling the said N26 million without going through financial institution as required under the Money Laundering Act. The embattled former minister is already facing 17-count charge of money laundering before the Lagos Division of the court, along with a former Finance Minister; Nenadi Usman, Danjuma Yusuf and a firm; Joint Trust Dimension Nigeria Limited. They were charg...
Post a Comment
Read more

Houthis Claim Attack on Central Israel in Response to Gaza ‘Massacres’

The ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas has taken a concerning regional turn as the Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility for an attack on central Israel. The group announced this as part of their escalating response to what they describe as "massacres" in Gaza amid the Israeli military’s operations in the strip. Details of the Attack The Houthis, a Shiite militant group with ties to Iran, declared that they launched missile and drone strikes targeting Israel. While the exact impact of these attacks remains unclear, reports suggest that Israel’s defense systems intercepted several threats over its airspace. This marks a significant escalation as the Houthis widen their involvement in the conflict beyond their typical operations within Yemen and neighboring Saudi Arabia. The Houthis’ Justification In their statement, the Houthis framed the attack as retaliation for Israel’s military actions in Gaza, which they characterized as indiscriminate bombings resultin...
Post a Comment
Read more

UK gets new prime minister Wednesday

Britain Home Secretary Theresa May to be officially unveiled as UK’s new Prime Minister on Wednesday David Cameron is to step down as Prime Minister on Wednesday after Prime Minister’s Questions. Theresa May will succeed him. An eurozone’s top official says it’s important that Britain’s next prime minister gets on with sorting out the implications of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union as soon as possible, reports Associated Press. Speaking after it became apparent that Theresa May could replace David Cameron as soon as this week, Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the next British prime minister will have to “find solutions for the Brexit which has been causing a lot of problems particularly for the U.K., but also for Europe.” He said that the “sooner we can sort out this problematic situation the better.” Dijsselbloem spoke ahead of a meeting of the eurozone’s 19 finance ministers in Brussels. Though Britain’s decision to leave the EU isn’t a primary topic of discussion, the ...
Post a Comment
Read more