The National Teachers’ Institute (NTI ) Kaduna has 69,000 students nationwide to become qualified and teachers.
This is being done through NCE, BED and PGDE programes by Distance Learning System across the country.
This was disclosed by the Director and Chef Executive of the Institute, Prof. Musa Maitafsir, on Friday in Abuja on the sidelines of the closing ceremony of the 2022 Capacity Building Workshop Teachers.
He said the Institute was currently upgrading 18,367 teachers to obtain certified teaching qualifications in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.
He said that the training was being conducted under the Emergency Teacher Upgrading Programme ( (ETUP), with the active collaboration of the Federal Ministry of Education and the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) and UNICEF.
Maitafsir said:” A total of 1,919 out of the said number of unqualified teachers have successfully acquired PGDE certificates in August,2022.
“They will sit for professional Qualifying Examinations organised by TRCN on the 9th and 10th of September,2022.
“The remaining candidates will complete their studies by the end of December, this year.
“This gesture needs to be extended to the entire regions of the country, so as to mould the unqualified and quack teachers currently impersonating teachers in some schools and colleges throughout the country.”
Maitafsir stated that the Institute in was collaborating with the Federal Ministry of Education and UNICEF under the Global Partnership for Education ( GPE ).
“We have developed and currently producing remote learning materials in English and Mathematics for pupils of primary 1 to 6 and JSS 1 to 3.
“It is a GPE intervention given to 16 states i.e. Bauchi, Benue, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Plateau, Niger, Sokoto, Taraba and Zamfara.
“This is to mitigate learning loss as a result of schools’ closure due to COVID-19 using remote learning materials of English and Mathematics domesticated in Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo.
“The materials are targeted to reach pupils of 43,000 schools in the most marginalised communities to complement loss of learning or bridge the gap created due to COVID-19 lockdown of schools in the intervention states.”
