Council flays posting of corps members as teachers

The Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abeokuta kicked against the posting of non-education graduate corps members to schools as teachers by the National Youth Service Corps.
The TRCN argued that this had been responsible for the mass failure of secondary school students in the Senior Secondary School Certificate and National Examinations Council in recent years.
The TRCN Head of Operations, Dr. Steve Nwokeocha, stated this at a pre-induction ceremony of 118 Professional Diploma in Education graduates at the Federal College of Education, Osiele, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Nwokeocha said only graduates of education should be posted as teachers to schools across the country.
He said, “What we are saying is that NYSC should make sure that only corps members who read education should be deployed in schools. Our council is against the deployment of non-education graduates in schools.
“The issue of having mass failure is a process. Part of the people contributing to the process are these corpers. It is an abuse of our profession.”
The TRCN head of operations stressed that graduates of other disciplines must under-go the programme before they could be deemed to have qualified as professional teachers.
He warned that any school that failed to comply with the regulations of the body might have their programmes de-registered.
The FCE, Osiele, Deputy Provost, Dr. Bolatito Adeniyi, who represented the Provost, said the programme was to formally induct the graduands into the teaching profession.
Culled: Punchng