Create Enabling Environment for Teacher Registration (NLC)

NLC wants government to create enabling environment for acquisition of professional certificates. Its General Secretary, Peter Eson-Ozo said the challenge before the country in the education sector was shortage of teachers and called for partnership with the Nigeria Union of Teachers to address the problem.

According to him, the aspiration of every parent is to have qualified and certified teachers teaching their children. Eson-Ozo advocated a meeting of relevant stakeholders in the sector to initiate programmes that would facilitate the certification of teachers.

He called for urgent registration of qualified teachers, adding that most schools in the country were currently understaffed. The Federal Government had on Wednesday announced that teachers without Professional Certificate of the Teachers’ Registration Council (TRCN) would be shown the way out of teaching profession by the end of 2017.