Education

TRCN conducts professional exams for 11,629 teachers

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has conducted the Professional Qualifying Examinations (PQE) for 11,629 teachers across the country.

The TRCN Acting Director of Certification and Licensing, Dr Jacinta Ogboso, made this known while supervising the examination at SASCON International School in Abuja.

Ogboso said 982 teachers and participated in the exercise in the Federal Capital Territory, adding the the TRCN started the examination in 2017 and kept improving on the processes.

On the fight againt malpractice in the conduct of the exercise, she said TRCN had put in place a process of accreditation through a platform that the ICT department developed.

She added that the platform was able to detect the actual people who registered for the examination, to avoid impersonation of candidates.

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“We started PQE in October 2017 and since then we’ve been having it; we have been having two batches except in 2018/2019 where we have three batches.

“We have the May/June Diet and the October/ November Diet and this is the second for this year.

“We have a total of 11,639 candidates registered for this examination nationwide and in FCT we have 982 candidates who are registered at this centre.

”We started accreditation at 8 a.m. and we are still on as we have them in batches.

“We accredited them, using our App which we use to ensure that we eliminate some forms of impersonation for those who are still very hardened,” Ogboso stated.

Speaking on the importance of the examination, Ogboso said teaching was a profession which must be regularly used for effective results.

She said the teachers have three opportunities to write the examination so as to get a licence to teach in the country as well as other parts of the world.

The TRCN director noted that Abuja had the highest application followed by Lagos and Anambra states, while Ondo and Kaduna had equal numbers of registered teachers.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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