There Are Many Unqualified Teachers In Nigeria, TRCN Cries Out

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has raised concerns implicit the increasing fig of unqualified teachers successful the country, describing it arsenic a large origin down the diminution successful acquisition standards.

The Chief Executive Officer of TRCN, Dr. Ronke Soyombo, made this known connected Monday during an quality connected Channels Television’s ‘The Morning Brief’, connected the juncture of the 2025 World Teachers’ Day, themed “Recasting Teaching arsenic a Collaborative Profession.”

Dr. Soyombo lamented that galore individuals presently teaching successful schools crossed Nigeria lacked the indispensable qualifications to efficaciously transportation retired their duties — a concern much prevalent successful backstage institutions.

“There are galore unqualified teachers successful the profession. We person those teaching successful classrooms but don’t person the teaching qualifications, peculiarly successful backstage schools,” she said.

She explained that portion immoderate individuals genuinely person a passionateness for teaching, their deficiency of ceremonial grooming has hindered their enrollment into the profession.

“It is 1 happening for you to accidental you person been to teacher’s college, and it is different happening to beryllium capable to interruption it down to the level of the students to soothe their circumstantial needs,” she noted. “This situation has to beryllium addressed, and arsenic soon arsenic we person the accelerated programme, that is going to bring a batch of teachers in, due to the fact that they don’t privation to travel to nationalist schools. What is stopping them is that they don’t person acquisition degrees.”

Dr. Soyombo revealed that the TRCN presently has astir 1.4 cardinal registered teachers, with plans to grow that fig to 20 cardinal wrong the adjacent 2 years done strategy digitization and accelerated registration processes.

“We person digitised our systems truthful that much radical tin beryllium capable to register,” she said. “Every teacher has a acquisition which is antithetic from 1 idiosyncratic to another. But what we are propagating successful acquisition is for everybody to travel unneurotic and program lessons together.”

Emphasizing the value of collaboration successful modern education, she added that teamwork among teachers enhances learning outcomes and models cooperative behaviour for students.

“You mightiness beryllium 3 teachers teaching a peculiar twelvemonth group, but if you travel unneurotic and program lessons together, you are bound to travel up with thing richer than erstwhile you enactment successful isolation. When you besides look astatine 21st-century acquisition itself, it is precise important that we walk the civilization of collaboration down to our children.”

Soyombo further revealed that the Council, successful collaboration with the government, is moving to span the teacher shortage spread done an accelerated Professional Diploma successful Education (PDE) programmes.

“There is nary uncertainty that we person shortages of teachers, truthful what we are doing with this peculiar authorities is to accelerate nonrecreational diploma successful education. For radical who don’t person it, present is the clip they volition beryllium capable to person access. We are accelerating the people to six months for experienced teachers, truthful that arsenic soon arsenic they are through, they tin person experience. This volition marque america person capable hands successful the teaching line.”

She expressed optimism that the caller inaugural volition pull much professionals into the acquisition sector, portion besides improving teacher competence done continuous grooming and assets support.

“What the TRCN is besides doing is looking astatine however we tin upgrade teachers. We are besides supporting them with resources successful classes, due to the fact that immoderate teachers are precise bully and are looking for however to program lessons to enactment different teachers, and that volition besides promote others to travel in,” she added.

Meanwhile, the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, successful her World Teachers’ Day connection connected Sunday, praised teachers for their invaluable contributions to nation-building and called for renewed efforts to code the planetary shortage of teachers.

Tinubu described teachers arsenic “true heroes, shaping minds, nurturing dreams, and guiding generations,” stressing that improving their payment and nonrecreational improvement remains cardinal to strengthening the acquisition system.