The lack of qualified teachers in Nigeria is one of the reasons why the country’s educational standards have fallen, according to the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN).
In honor of 2025 World Teachers Day, Dr. Ronke Soyombo, the council’s chief executive officer, Dr. Ronke Soyombo, made the announcement on Monday as a guest on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief.
While discussing the theme of this year’s “Recasting Teaching As A Collaborative Profession,” Dr. Soyombo noted that there were also those who had genuine interest in the field but who were unable to enroll because of their qualifications.
She claimed that the Council is currently addressing the profession’s teacher shortage.
“The profession has a lot of unqualified teachers,” says the director. We have those instructors in classrooms, but private schools, particularly, lack such qualifications.
It’s one thing to say you’ve been to a teacher’s college, but it’s another thing to be able to narrow it down to the students’ needs, to soothe their own. Because teachers don’t want to attend public schools, they need to be addressed, and as soon as the accelerated program is available, that will encourage this problem. And their lack of education degrees is what keeps them.
“We currently have 1.4 million teachers enrolled with the TRCN, and we want to reach 20 million in the next two years.” We have done a number of things to digitize our systems so that more people can register.
Every teacher has a unique gift, according to the saying “everyone has one.” However, we are encouraging everyone to plan lessons and do so in education.
You might have three teachers teaching a certain year group, but if you work together and organize the lessons, you’ll probably come up with something more interesting than what you’d get from doing it alone.
It is crucial that we impart the spirit of collaboration to our children, even if you also consider the 21st-century education itself.
“We must permit our kids to work with groups of people with different abilities. This year, teachers are eager to see how they can improve collaboration in their institutions.
Teachers can visit other schools to see which ones are doing well and apply the best practices to their own schools, as well.
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Senator Oluremi Tinubu, the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, praised teachers around the world on Sunday, urging them to put their feet again to combat the persistent global teacher shortage.
Teachers were referred to as “true heroes,” shaping minds, nurturing dreams, and guiding generations, according to Tinubu.
In addition to praising the country’s teacher shortages, Soyombo also praised the government’s efforts to combat the menace.
There is no denying that there are teachers shortages, so what we are doing with this particular government is to advance the development of a professional education diploma. Now is the time for those who don’t have access to it. We’re accelerating the course for experienced teachers until they are six months old so they can start getting experience. In the classroom, there will be enough hands, hopefully.
Because people are now eager to work in the field, “we will have enough teachers entering the field.”
