Secondary Schools with unqualified teachers to lose WAEC, NECO accreditation – FG

The Federal Government has directed that secondary schools, nationalist and private, indispensable guarantee their teachers person the due certification, otherwise,  they volition nary longer beryllium allowed to service arsenic introspection centres.

The caller directive, was contained successful a memo issued connected Thursday by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, to the Registrar/Chief Executive of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN).

Alausa said the directive was successful enactment with authorities argumentation to fortify professionalism successful the teaching profession.

He directed that, from 2027, accreditation of some nationalist and backstage secondary schools for the behaviour of nationalist examinations, including WASSCE, NABTEB, NECO and NBIAS, would beryllium strictly tied to teachers’ TRCN certification.

“Accordingly, effectual from March 2027 for WASSCE, May 2027 for NABTEB, June 2027 for NECO and June 2027 for SAISSCE, immoderate schoolhouse whose teachers are not duly registered and licensed with the TRCN shall beryllium disqualified from serving arsenic an introspection centre,” helium said.

Alausa besides indicated successful the memo that authorities governments are requested to instrumentality owed cognisance of the directive.

He urged authorities authorities to enactment successful spot indispensable measures to guarantee compliance by each teachers successful state-owned secondary schools and backstage secondary schools wrong the stipulated 2 years from the day of the argumentation directive.

“Compliance with this directive shall beryllium monitored, with schools expected to execute a minimum compliance complaint of 75 per cent by 2026 and afloat compliance of 100 per cent by 2027,” helium said.

However successful bid to spend the easiness of compliance, helium urged teachers who are non-education graduates but possessed not little than 12 months of schoolroom teaching acquisition to enrol successful the National Teachers Institute.

The curate said that the affected teachers could suffice for the abridged nonrecreational certification programme offered done the National Teachers Institute (NTI).

The programme, helium said, consisted of abbreviated nonrecreational courses lasting betwixt 3 months and 6 months, aft which participants would suffice for TRCN registration and licensing.

He urged those acrophobic to springiness the directive the highest precedence and guarantee wide sensitisation of stakeholders crossed the state truthful arsenic to debar disruption of accreditation for nationalist examinations

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