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A total of 3,650 teachers have failed the annual Professional Qualifying Examination conducted by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TCRN, across the country.
The examination, which was the second in a series to be conducted by TRCN for 2020, had a total of 17,602 candidates tested, to qualify as professional teachers.
The Registrar of TRCN, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, who disclosed the details of the exam to newsmen, lamented that Nigeria had only about 2.2 million qualified teachers for its teeming pupils.
The teachers’ regulatory board helmsman, however, said the testing of teachers in the basic education sector, was to ensure an improvement in the quality of learning and teaching.
He added that 11,487 candidates passed while 3,650 teachers failed in the exercise.
“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,” he said.
According to him, the number of those who passed put the number of qualified teachers to about 2.2 million, adding that TRCN will in no too distant time release the present figure of quacks operating in the nation’s teaching profession.
While noting that the announcement of special salary package and other benefits for teachers by President Muhammadu Buhari remains top as its greatest achievement for 2020, the TRCN boss expressed delight that the National Council of Education has recently approved all as announced by the President during the recent World Teachers Day.
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The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria has disclosed that 11,487 candidates passed its November diet of the teachers’ Professional Qualifying Examination conducted nationwide.
Registrar and Chief Executive of TRCN, Professor Josiah Ajiboye, made this known on Friday in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the achievements recorded by the Council in 2020.
He said a total of 17,602 candidates sat for the examination, that qualifies one as a professional teacher, adding that 3,650 teachers failed in the exercise.
The examination was conducted between 12 and 14 November across the country.
Ajiboye put the number of qualified teachers in Nigeria at about 2.2 million.
He said: “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.”
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By Joseph Erunke
THE Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria,TRCN,has said a total of 11,487 candidates passed its annual Professional Qualifying Examination conducted recently across the country.
The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of TRCN, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, made this known on Friday in Abuja ,while briefing newsmen on the achievements recorded by the council.
Ajiboye,who said a total of 17,602 candidates sat for the examination that qualifies one as professional teacher, disclosed that 3,650 teachers failed the exercise.
His words: “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.”
The examination, which was the second series to be conducted by TRCN for 2020 took place between 12 and 14 November.