The Teachers Registration Council (TRCN) Saturday said a total of 9,204 teachers participated in its Professional Qualifying Examination, held nationwide, with the exception of two states.
TRCN’s Acting Director of Certification and Licensing, Dr Jacenta Ogboso, who disclosed this said the Council rescheduled that of Sokoto and Zamfara states over recent security concerns.
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Speaking in Abuja while supervising the examination in Maitama, Ogboso noted that 125 candidates registered for the exercise in Sokoto and 151 in Zamfara State, adding that the examination in the two states will be held when the security situation in the states improves.
On tackling malpractice in the conduct of the exercise, she said TRCN put in place a process of accreditation through a platform its ICT department has developed to detect the actual people registered for the examination to avoid impersonation of candidates.
Ogboso disclosed that the examination has been reduced to two diets per year due to reduction in applications, adding that the surge in applications earlier experienced at the peak of the PQE was due to the rush to meet the deadline for implementation of government’s policy of ensuring that only professionally qualified teachers were in its school system.
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr. David Adejo, who also monitored the exercise, said teachers who have not registered to write the PQE were not teachers as far as Nigeria is concerned.
