FG to employ Only 1st class, 2nd class upper graduates as teachers

According to FG, From 2021, only individuals with second class upper and first-class divisions will be employed as teachers in Nigeria.

This is a new policy by the federal government of Nigeria to ensure that the brightest brains are attracted to the teaching profession.

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, said teachers without requisite qualifications, competencies and practicing license are presently migrating out of the Nigerian Teaching Service.

He disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja while monitoring the conduct of the 2020 October Diet Batch B Teachers’ Professional Qualifying Examinations, (PQE).

“By 2021, we will not engage

teachers if they don’t meet particular

threshold, we are now limiting entry

point of teaching only to the best

who are qualified, we will engage

individuals with second class upper

and first class divisions,” he said.