No fewer than 13,700 teachers are participating in the May edition of the Teachers’ Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE), conducted by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN).
The Acting Registrar of TRCN, Stella-Maria Nwokeocha, disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday while monitoring the exercise at the Computer-Based Test Centre of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
“We have a figure of 594 people writing at this centre. There are some other centres in other states.
“All together, we are looking at about 13,700 participants,” she said.
Nwokeocha said reports from centres across the country indicated the tests are going on smoothly.
“The reports we have indicated that they have completed the exams without any problem. We have not had any negative reports at the moment,” she said.
The Acting Registrar, however, disclosed that the examination was shifted in some states due to the rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
“This examinations continues tomorrow, because of the JAMB issue. We have to shift the dates for those in Lagos and the South East.
“Some of them will be writing tomorrow, being Sunday, and in Enugu, they will be writing on Wednesday,” Nwokeocha said
