80% of Teachers in the North are not Qualified, are with Obsolete Teachings

Over 80 per cent of teachers in the North are not qualified to teach, the Director-General (DG) of the National Teachers Institute (NTI) Kaduna, Dr Aminu Ladan Sharehu, has said.

Sharehu said in the southern part of the country, teachers engaged were well qualified and regretted that so many factors were responsible for the number of unqualified teachers in the North.

Similarly, Kaduna State governor, Alhaji Muhktar Ramalan Yero, said about 50 per cent of teachers engaged to teach in the state were below the required qualification and had been given  a time frame within which to improve.

Both Sharehu and Governor Yero spoke in Zaria at a national conference on, ‘Quality assurance and control in teacher education as a tool for achieving the Millennium Development Goals,’ organised by Federal College of Education (FCE), Zaria, on Wednesday.

Sharehu, who stressed the importance of re-training those in the teaching profession, said over 80 per cent of teachers in the North were below standards because there was no motivation.

According to him, “you need to train and retrain teachers because NCE is just a starting point. In the teaching profession, we don’t have learned people, but learning people, because we believe that there is no end to learning till death. So, it is only lawyers that are proudly calling themselves learned.” - Tribune