NUT endorses plan to sack uncertified teachers by 2018

Nigeria Union of Teachers |

The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) has endorsed the move by the Federal Government to sack teachers in public schools without professional certificates by 2018.
 

Its President, , who said this, noted that the professionalism drive of the teachers’ registration council is a right step in the right direction.
 

He said the plan will make teachers to charge professional fees and correct wrong conception about the profession.
 

The NUT president Mr. Michael Alogba Olukoya spoke at the workshop organised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) on Training the Trainers on the implementation of professional standards among Nigerian teachers.
 

He noted that allowing unprofessional teachers to teach children would be a great danger to the future of Nigeria, adding that professionalism is the way to enhance standards.
 

"It is going to bring about change in the attitudes and change in the previous conception. It is going to improve the quality of education in our country. I must give kudos to the government of Muhammadu Buhari and the minister of education, who have made many pronouncements, that in Nigeria if you are not professionally qualified,you shall be shown the way out.
 

"There should be a different between men and boys. You cannot give what you don’t have and we are concerned about the standards. In teaching, there should be no room for quacks because quacks in the classroom will damage the children and leave them more confused than they were before.
 

"It is the responsibility of us in the NUT to ensure that this does not happen. This new development, sincerely, we teachers in Nigeria welcome it and we are going to partner with the TRCN to move the state of teaching profession to state of Eldorado," He stated.
 

The implementation of the policy will begin in 2018, according to the TRCN Registrar/Chief Executive Prof. Olusegun Ajiboye, warning those yet to have professional certificate to take the opportunity of writing professional examination in October 2017.
 

"It was important to remove “cheaters” from “teachers”.
 

"Those teaching in public and private schools must be registered to be professional teachers."

-The Nation