The Director of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria in Lagos State, Mr. Gbolahan Enilolobo, has deplored the poor capacity of teachers to deliver quality teaching commensurate with their qualifications and experience.
According to him, such occurrences are a consequence of low commitment, poor pre-service training and dispassionate psyche of most emerging teachers.
All of this, he further argued, boiled down to incompetence.
Enilolobo stated this at the 2017/2018 matriculation for National Certificate in Education and Post-Graduate Diploma in Education students, during which about 100 NCE students and 40 PDE were admitted at the Ipaja, Lagos, campus.
He disclosed that TRCN as the regulatory agency for the teaching profession in Nigeria was worried about the development and to mitigate the incidence, it had to introduce the Professional Qualifying Examination for all teachers seeking to register as professional teachers in the country.
The TRCN state director said this step had already yielded positive results.
Earlier in her speech, the Provost, Topmost College of Education, Ipaja, Lagos, Dr. Mabel Odunayo, had urged the Federal Government to see private institutions as partners in progress in the task of moving the nation forward.
Odunayo, therefore, appealed to the government to include private educational institutions in the scheme of things.
She added, “There is no doubt that government policy has shown that more attention is expected to be geared towards sound education and any right thinking academician would pitch his tent with this laudable policy.
“It is a common knowledge that it is passion that is now sustaining private colleges of education; it is, therefore, imperative that any assistance to this sector shall, in no small measure, be an impetus.”
Odunayo expressed regret that inspite of the efforts by the government to create gainful employment through “entrepreneurial involvement” to curb youth restiveness in the society, “some unscrupulous elements are involving themselves in sordid acts such as Internet scam, smoking, drug abuse, truancy, kidnapping, rape and rituals. Declaring war against it in our nation is a task that must be done.”
