The Teachers Registration Council has challenged the education service rendered by private schools in Nigeria, most especially in the southwestern Nigeria.
The regulatory body claimed that 70 per cent of private school teachers in the southwest are unqualified.
The South-west states in Nigeria are Lagos, Osun, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo and Ekiti.
The council’s registrar, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye who noted that the culprits were not teachers, but cheaters, added that they don’t only cheat the pupils/students but the system in its entirety.
Speaking on Thursday in Abuja at the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Council and INSTILL Education, Ajiboye revealed that contrary to several speculations about the Southwest and its teachers of private schools, 70 per cent had been discovered not qualified.
Lamenting that 70 per cent of the unqualified teachers lacked the prerequisites to be registered by the Council, the TRCN boss stated that a large number of teachers in Nigeria had never been exposed to training and had been using outdated equipment for illustration.
He said signing the MoU was aimed at equipping Nigerian teachers with 21st-century skills that would ultimately support teacher professional development and learning outcomes in Nigeria and Africa in general.