No fewer than 11,350 teachers across the country have sat for the May Diet of the Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE), organised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN).<\/P>
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The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr Andrew Adejo, while monitoring the conduct of the examination at Sascon International School in Abuja on Saturday, expressed satisfaction over the conduct of the examination<\/P>
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Adejo, who commended the new technology introduced by the council to get the authenticity of the certificate of teachers, said the examination had witnessed some level of improvements.<\/P>
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He said this would go a long way to weed out quackery from the system.<\/P>
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According to him, last year we just moved from accreditation and candidates go straight to write but this year, accreditation has a double level.<\/P>
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\u201d This year, candidates will have to first do the accreditation, fill the form and you also cross-check your slip with the APP that TRCN has developed to give it authenticity.<\/P>
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\u201dSo I think they are improving on incremental basis every year on the process for PQE for teachers.<\/P>
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\u201dThe Federal Government is making efforts to weed out quacks but you know it is very difficult but this exam is part of the way we can weed out quacks.<\/P>
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\u201dWe are insisting that before you can be a teacher in every school, you must meet the basic minimum standard.<\/P>
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\u201cAs at today, at the junior and senior secondary as well as early childhood school levels, quackery is reducing,\u201d he said<\/P>
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He said the ministry was working on cleaning the teachers\u2019 database so as to have less quacks in the profession so that quackery does not affect the standard and quality of the country\u2019s education.<\/P>
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He, therefore, urged state and federal educational quality assurance team to ensure teachers have the required qualifications and skills to teach.<\/P>
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Meanwhile, the Registrar of TRCN, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye said the report from centres across the country indicated hitch free processes.<\/P>
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Ajiboye commended the candidates for comporting themselves before and during the exams saying that teachers were now realising the importance of the PQE.<\/P>
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\u201dThere has been improvement in the accreditation process because part of what we did was to develop an APP to accredit the candidates and this is working perfectly well.<\/P>
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\u201d For this year, we have over 11,350 with Lagos having the highest with 1,500 candidates followed by FCT, while Kebbi has the lowest candidates.<\/P>
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\u201d So, what we did is to combine states with lower candidates,\u201d he said.<\/P>
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The registrar said that the council was leveraging on technology for its operations to track quackery while also putting necessary measures to weed out quacks through its school monitoring programme mechanism.<\/P>
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Speaking with some of the candidates, they attested to that fact that the technology introduced by the council had help in checking some of the discrepancies in its accreditation processes.<\/P>
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One of the candidates, Idongesit Ben, said that the exam was conducted smoothly without any technical hitches.<\/P>
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Ben said that though the exam was a bit difficult as it was her first time but hoping to succeed after the outcome of the exams.<\/P>
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\u201d We had 60 questions to answer which were made up of Test and Measurements, Basic Mathematics, English, Educational Psychology and Sociology.<\/P>
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\u201dThe exams was a little bit difficult for me because it was not what I expected having read through the TRCN past questions but I hope to come out successful,\u201d she said.<\/P>
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On her part, Mrs Titilope Yunusa, writing for the second time, said the exam was better than her first attempt.<\/P>
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\u201dThis is my second time of writing this exam and I don\u2019t want to fail this time around. I experienced difficulties in my first attempt because I don\u2019t really know how to operate the computers.<\/P>
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\u201d But now I have learnt the operations of a computer system and can now operate it and that is why I am here to take the examination again.<\/P>
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\u201dI am confidence of passing the exams this time,\u201d she said.<\/P>
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Source: News Agency of Nigeria<\/P>
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