Executive Secretary of NCCE, Prof Paulinus Chijoke Okwelle, asked JAMB to lower the entry requirements, including accepting a Pass in Mathematics and English Language as pre-requisite for admissions to attract more candidates to enroll for NCE programmes.
He, subsequently, asked the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to lower the entry requirements, including accepting a Pass in Mathematics and English Language as pre-requisite for admissions to attract more candidates to enroll for NCE programmes.
ESTABLISHED in the 1960s to address the dearth of qualified teachers in primary schools, Nigeria’s colleges of education have, for decades, been systematically plugging the gap. However, over time, these institutions have been faltering. This has led to shortage of qualified teachers in primary and secondary schools, a problem the colleges was meant to solve in the first place. For instance, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board , said of the 1,761,262 candidates that sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination , only 24,069 applied to colleges of education across the country. This represents one per cent of total applications.
“The Federal Government later reviewed the report and came up with N465billion as amount needed to reposition colleges of education but, till now, the government has not released any fund to pursue this goal. Besides, she noted that some of the colleges awarding certificates do not deserve to be granted licenses, as they do not emphasise quality. Nwosisi added that poor motivation of lecturers is a major factor responsible for colleges’ persistent descent into ineffectiveness, noting that some of the colleges pay as badly as N40, 000 per month, which may not also be regular.
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