FG pegs First Class as benchmark for engagement into teaching
*To consider candidates with 2.1 qualifications also
By Joseph Erunke
THE federal government said Saturday that only professional teachers with First Class certificates will be employed beginning from next year, 2021.
The government which said it would also consider people with 2.1 qualifications, explained that the measure was part of its renewed efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning in Nigerian schools.
Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Arc. Sonny Echonu made this known during a monitoring exercise of the Professional Qualifying Examination,PQE, organised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria,TRCN.
