NTI Trains 69,000 Teachers

The National Teachers’ Institute (NTI ) Kaduna has revealed that it has trained  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.

The Director and Chef Executive of the Institute, Prof. Musa Maitafsir, disclosed this 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 ).