TRCN laments shortage of teachers in Nigeria, global community

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN has raised an alarm implicit the shrinking fig of teachers disposable to impart cognition wrong Nigeria and by hold the planetary community.

A high-level sheet connected the teaching profession, acceptable up by the United Nations revealed this successful its study released successful 2024.

This improvement has besides been worsened by teachers leaving Nigeria en wide for greener pastures overseas owed to dwindling fortunes successful the profession.

Acting Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of TRCN, Dr Stella-Maria Nwokeocha confirmed the situation connected Monday, saying the concern is necessitating the 4th Annual Online Conference of Registered Teachers successful Nigeria.

Nwokeocha recalled however the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, underscored this interest erstwhile successful 2022 helium convened the first-ever United Nations Summit connected Education, tagged “Transforming Education Summit.” “Teachers, teaching and the teaching profession” which was 1 of the 5 tracks [sub-themes] of the Summit.

She said the study confirmed “a melodramatic shortage of teachers worldwide” and the beingness of millions of teachers who deficiency the support, skills and continuing grooming they request to conscionable the demands of rapidly changing acquisition systems.”

“Its recommendations, further, telephone for urgent enactment to code superior issues successful the teaching assemblage that pertain to pre-service teacher acquisition and continuous nonrecreational development”.

At an interactive league with the media, she said Nigeria arsenic the “Giant of Africa”, adjacent successful matters of education, has a immense stock of the teacher shortage and request for continuous updating of the nonrecreational skills and competencies of teachers on the lines identified by these evolving planetary concerns and recommendations.

“This is wherefore the 4th Annual Online Conference of Registered Teachers successful Nigeria scheduled for October is simply a peculiar effect to the emerging planetary continental and nationalist issues of involvement to the teaching assemblage and acquisition successful Nigeria”.

She listed the taxable for this year’s league as, “Advancing Teacher Professionalization successful Nigeria Towards Education 2030: Challenges, Strategies and Prospects”

According to the TRCN boss, the league is straight linked to planetary concerns which is expected to woody with strategies for prime teaching and lifelong learning; nationalist and planetary champion practices successful continuous nonrecreational upskilling of teachers particularly with respect to knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviour and predisposition of teachers.