UI inducts 253 professional teachers

A  total of 253 graduates of education in various levels in the University of Ibadan were on Tuesday inducted into the teaching profession.

The vice chancellor of the premier university, Professor Abel Idowu Olayinka, advised the newly inducted teachers to abide by the ethics of the profession. He said that abiding by the ethics of the profession would always guarantee the social-economic and political development of the nation.

Professor Olayinka said that graduates of the Faculty of Education of the university have specific features that would make them great teachers.

“You have been exposed to the requisite professional practice skills in education and thus, trained educationists from our great university,” he said.

Olayinka said that despite the various challenges, the university had always provided all that was required to empower its product to finding solutions to any challenge on the job.

The challenges, he said, include the review of the curricula in different programmes in ways that would make the university’s product and the teaching profession to be dynamic.

In a goodwill message, the registrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Professor Olusegun Ajiboye, said that the teaching profession is now moving from an all-comers’ affair to a well-respected profession.

“This citadel of learning has embraced the desired changes in the education sector by institutionalising induction protocol from inception to date,” he said.

Ajiboye advised the inductees to be 21st century educationists, driven by information technology which demands from every teacher the need to be abreast of the latest innovations in the education industry.

“I want to appeal to the inductees of today not to be ‘BBC’ (Born Before Computer) teachers, but rather digital teachers that interact and make the world a global village,” he said.

Akinwande Kazeem, on behalf of the inductees, thanked the university authorities for imparting to them the requisite professional skills, calling on other inductees to work towards transforming the education sector and give the best to the nation.

The inductees possessed Bachelor degrees (B.Ed), Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE), Master in Education (M.Ed) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)

They are from the departments of Adult Education, Education Management, Guidance Counselling, Genetics and Health Education, Special Education and Teacher Education.