First-class Is The Minimum Requirement For Teachers – Adamu, Minister of Education

The Federal Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Saturday, November 14, only professionally qualified individuals with first-class degrees would be employed as teachers from next year.


Adamu made this disclosure via a statement issued by the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echonu, during a monitoring exercise of the Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE) organised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) in Abuja.

According to Adamu, 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.


He said: “With effect from next year, we will not admit or engage people as teachers if they don’t meet a particular threshold. We are now limiting entry to only the best. You must have a first-class or 2:1 as a minimum requirement and if you have qualification in other subjects that are not education-related, we will arrange for a conversion programme to be administered by NTI; TRCN; as well as any university that has faculties of education or this programme; because you also have to learn ways of communicating and managing students.

“We are migrating teachers who are not qualified or do not have the requisite qualifications; competency; not licensed or registered out of our classrooms to make way for qualified personnel; because we want to achieve learning and teaching and learning also occur in our schools.”

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Meanwhile, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Friday, November 13, urged Nigerians to support the Nigeria Police Force in the fight against crime in the country.

NasarawaAdamu made this appeal during the passing out parade of the 288 Special Constabularies; held at the Police Training School, Odukpani, Cross River.

According to the IGP,  for any policing architecture to succeed; it must not alienate from the citizens it was established to protect.

Represented at the event by the Zaki Ahmed, the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 6, Calabar, the IGP charged police personnel to look beyond logistics; motivation; and consider the importance of returning policing to the community.

He said: “The programme was designed to employ an all-inclusive mechanism to aid the police; in the quest to achieve its internal security mandate in the country. The increasing complexity of crime and also the challenges of policing a vast and diverse country like ours; gave birth to this people-oriented method that will bring about trust; consent; and also partnership between the police and the people.”kwara
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