The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has announced that 4,692 teachers are set to sit for the council’s Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE) in Kaduna State on Friday.
According to Vanguard, Mr Kabir Yar’adua, TRCN State Coordinator, told the News Agency of Nigerian (NAN) in Kaduna, that the examination would take place in three centres, with one in each Senatorial Zone.
He further disclosed that the professional examination, which would be computer-based, had been scheduled for Oct. 12 across the country and that teachers in Zone 1 would write the examination at Federal College of Education (FCE), Zaria, while those in Zone 2 would write at National Teachers Institute, Kaduna.
He said teachers in Zone 3 would write the examination at Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya. According to the coordinator, 3,820 of those who will sit for the examination are primary school teachers while 361 are secondary school teachers.
The official said TRCN had so far registered about 58,436 teachers in the state, a figure he noted had put Kaduna state among states with the highest number of registered teachers in the country. “If all the 4,692 teachers pass the examination, Kaduna state will have a total of 63,128 registered teachers.
He lauded the state government for making TRCN certificate a requirement for promotion, as part of efforts to improve the quality of teaching in its schools.
