Don kicks against posting of non-education corps members to schools

A don and member of the Committee of Deans of Education in Nigerian Universities (CODENU), Maichibi Nok, has noted that one of the factors undermining the teaching profession in the country is the posting of corps members, who have no prerequisite qualification in education, to classrooms.

Nok, who stated this in an interview with newsmen in Keffi, said the association was working towards reversing the practice, in an effort to make the teaching profession more attractive to both  teachers and students.

He frowned on indiscriminate posting of corps members to places of primary assignments not relevant to their fields of study and attributed the development to why the challenges experienced in various sectors would be hard to address.

He said: “The best way to stream education and make it truly a profession is to ensure that it is not watered down at the NYSC office, where graduates who are not educators are posted to schools to teach.

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“After teaching for a year, they will now have the belief that teaching is not a profession, that anybody can do it. So subsequently, we have vowed that we will no longer allow that.

“If you are not an education graduate, you will not be posted to a secondary or primary school to teach.”

Nok, who is the Dean, Faculty of Education, Nasarawa State University, Keffi said, CODENU is working in synergy with the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) to achieve this.

“We are working with the TRCN which has the power to regulate and professionalise the teaching profession.

“We have commenced discussion with the TRCN and NYSC on this; we will make it a policy.

“In the real sense, this is an advocacy issue and you cannot achieve any result without actually formalising it, and so we are working towards that.

We are working with the TRCN to make sure NYSC implements what we are suggesting,” he stressed.

Nigerian Tribune