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412 teachers to write professional exams in Lagos on October 14

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-412 teachers in Lagos State are sitting for Professional Qualifying Exam to make them professionals.

-Teachers who had regularised their certificates during the conventional period would not partake in the examination.

Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria said on Wednesday that 412 primary and secondary school teachers in Lagos State will write its maiden edition of the Professional Qualifying Examination, PQE, on Oct. 14.

The Director of TRCN in Lagos State, Mr Gbolahan Enilolobo, who disclosed this, said the examinations would enable successful teachers to be qualified as professionals in the field.

“Teachers are long overdue to be addressed as professionals. We call teaching the mother of all professions. If we call it the mother of all professions, then, why do we not address the practitioners as professionals thereby practicing what we say?’’ he said.

According to Punch report, Enibolobo said many teachers have already taken advantage of the conventional period to regularise their certificate with the council and pay for the licence, therefore, few teachers were registering to sit for the exam, adding that any teachers licensed during the period would not need to take PQE.

He said that the introduction of PQE would be followed by a nationwide restriction on unlicensed schools and teachers early in 2018.

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“PQE will create awareness for other teachers that the professional examination is real. Most teachers in Lagos State have registered and paid for the license during the conventional period. It is those that did not hear anything at all that are sitting for PQE.

“It is expected that there will be massive turnout in 2018, as there will be recruitment of teachers in the state as well as convocation of fresh graduates from the tertiary institutions,’’ he said.