Nigeria’s education among world best – TRCN Registrar

The Registrar of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, has said Nigeria’s education is one of the best in the world.

Speaking at a one-day retreat on the State of Education in Nigeria organised by the Education Correspondent Association of Nigeria (ECAN) in Abuja on Tuesday, Prof Ajiboye, said this is why Nigerian graduates are sorted out globally.

He reprimanded those who said the standard is falling and urged Nigerians to stop portraying the education sector in bad light.

“Nigeria’s education is among one of the best in the world as at today, if not, why are Nigerian professionals going outside the country?”

“Even this year alone, I have signed letters of professional standing for over 260 Nigerians going to teach in Canada alone and as of this morning; we have a letter from the UK from the head of their teaching council. She sends a message for a pro-forma letter of professional standing because they want to start taking Nigerian teachers massively,” he said.

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Ajiboye called on the media to help the country in amplifying the positive values of the sector so that foreign countries would be able to read about Nigeria’s education system.

In his remark, the Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, represented by the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin`, called for the introduction of a National Education Insurance Scheme to address the problem of access, especially in state universities.

He said the government should be able to support the education scheme whereby a certain percentage can be paid by the Federal Government so that subscribers can attend private institutions.

On his part, Registrar/Chief Executive of National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof Dantani Ibrahim Wushish, said candidates with NECO results have gained admission into foreign universities across the world.

This is even as he said between January and August 2022, (eight months), 490 requests were received by the council from more than 50 countries to confirm NECO certificates.

The NECO boss said they have been challenged by that as it is done manually.

“We are at the verge of launching a software that will validate our results so that institutions don’t need to write to us but can go to the app to verify because manual handling is very difficult,” he said.

He also disclosed that NECO conducts examinations in African countries such as Niger, Togo, and others.

“NECO is a strong member of the International Association for Educational Assessment and we play a vital role in the global assessment of examination.”