The Federal Government said yesterday that only professionally qualified individuals with first-class degrees would be employed as teachers from next year.
The Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echonu, who disclosed this during a monitoring exercise of the Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE) organised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) in Abuja, said the move was aimed at improving the quality of teaching and learning in schools.
He, however, added that the government would also consider people with 2.1 qualifications for employment into the system.
The permanent secretary added that a national implementation committee would be inaugurated in the coming week to ensure the federal government’s agenda on teachers’ registration and revitalization was achieved.
