Teachers have been urged to improve on their knowledge and skills on information technology to meet up with the twenty- first century global teaching standards.
The call was made during the fifth Teachers Registration Council of Nigerian Induction and Oath taking of the Nwafor Orizu College of Education Nsugbe.
Blessing Uchendu reports that the event which was held at the College Auditorium had in attendance academia from both the school and sister institutions across the state and exposed the inductees to requirements of teaching profession.
In his remarks, the Registrar and Chief Executive , Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, Professor Josiah Olusegun Ajiboye represented by Dr Okunola Abimbola, while describing teachers as indispensable tools in human capital development of any nation, charged them to always strive to improve their knowledge on daily basis especially on ICT in order to impact positively on their students in the present world where digital literacy rules.
Professor Ajiboye explained that TRCN was established in 1993 with the key objective of regulating and controlling teaching profession in all level of education system in Nigeria, and to provide template by which teachers can compete favorably with their counterparts world over.
Speaking earlier, the Provost of the Institution, Dr Ifeyinwa Osegbo represented by the Director Part Time Program, Dr Ndu Azubike, disclosed that one thousand seven hundred and thirty one inducted teachers scaled through the initial two thousand three hundred and eighteen students that took the TRCN examinations, encouraging the inductees to keep to tenets of the teaching profession.
Dr Osegbo commended Governor Willie Obiano for his administration’s education friendliness, as according to her the college has witnessed a lot of improvement since the inception of his government.
Earlier in a welcome address, the Chairman of the occasion and Dean School of Sciences, Mr Patrick Amaefuna, commended what he called indispensable roles by the TRCN in ensuring that the teaching profession is highly controlled and classified, encouraging the body not to relent in its efforts towards repositioning the institution for a better society.
In a vote of thanks, the coordinator of TRCN Nwafor Orizu College of Education Nsugbe, Mr Gabriel Ilechukwu, advised the inductees to be good ambassadors of the institution and wished them well in their fields of endeavor.
Some of the inductees, including Messers Chukwuemeka Alutu, Uchenna Okafor and Onyebuchi Ekweoba, thanked God for guiding them through all the rigors of the profession noting that they are proud to be professional teachers.
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