Only 1st and 2nd Class upper Graduates will be employed as teachers - FG

The permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono said that the federal government will be engaging First Class and Second Class graduates as teachers. 

According to him, "By 2021, we will not engage teachers if they don’t meet particular threshold, we are now limiting entry point of teaching only to the best who are qualified, we will engage individuals with second class upper and first class divisions. 

"We will make arrangements for conversion programmes for people who have these categories of results from other fields, they need to learn pedagogy, methodology, through the NTI and the TRCN, and they will undergo specific programmes that will empower them to teach. 

"We must enforce Mr. President’s directive that only qualified teachers will be allowed into our classrooms. 

"The Professional Qualifying Examinations is going on smoothly across 34 states and the feedback has been good."

Echono who spoke on Saturday November 14 talk about the conduct of the 2020 October Diet Batch B Teachers’ Professional Qualifying Examinations (PQE).

He noted that teachers without requisite qualifications, competencies and practicing license are presently migrated out of the Nigerian Teaching Service.