Over 75 Percent Candidates Pass 2020nTeachers Professional Exams
BY TEMI OHAKWE, ABUJA – The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria has announced that 11,487 candidates out of the 17,602 that sat for the 2020 professional qualifying examination passed.
The Teachers’ diet professional qualifying examination conducted nationwide in November 12 to 14, 2020.
Registrar and Chief Executive of TRCN, Professor Josiah Ajiboye, who announced this in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the achievements recorded by the Council in 2020, said that 3,650 teachers failed the examination representing 24.1 per cent.
This is as Ajiboye put the number of qualified teachers in Nigeria at about 2.2 million
According to him; “A total of 17,602 candidates took the examination, 11,487 passed which is 75.9percent while 3,650 candidates failed, which is 24.1 per cent.”
Ajiboye said that the announcement of special salary package and other benefits for teachers by President Muhammadu Buhari remains top as its greatest achievement for 2020, adding that he is delighted that the National Council of Education has approved all as announced by the President during the World Teachers Day.
He said the next step is to secure the nod of the Federal Executive Council, adding that the National Assembly is also expected to intervene in amending relevant laws to allow for the increase in service and retirement years for teachers.
The TRCN boss commended President Buhari, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu and Minister of State, Emeka Nwajiuba, for their support to the Nigerian teaching profession.
He said TRCN mobilised over 60,000 teachers for various digital skills training in 2020 in collaboration with other relevant bodies, adding that in not too distant time, it would release the figure of quacks operating in the nation’s teaching profession.
