Executive Secretary, National Commission for Colleges of Education, Prof. Mohammed Junaid| credits: http://nationalmirroronline.net
The Executive Secretary, National Commission for Colleges of Education, Prof. Mohammed Junaid, has said the urge to ensure quality of teachers being produced by the National Teachers’ Institute for the nation’s basic schools informed the body’s decision to embark on the monitoring and evaluation of NTI’s study centres across the country.
Also, stakeholders in the education sector, who attended the opening ceremony of the evaluation exercise in the South West geo-political zone, in Lagos on Wednesday, have faulted the Federal Government’s decision to scrap teacher training colleges in the country.
According to them, those who passed through teacher training colleges and are still in the system are some of the best teachers in the nation’s school system.
Junaid, who was represented at the event by the Acting Director, Planning, Research and Statistics, NCCE, Dr. Alex Maiyanga, did not contest this position, he explained that quality must not be sacrificed in teacher training institutions.
NCCE is charged with the responsibility of developing and reviewing the minimum standards, guidelines, accreditation and re-accreditation of academic programmes in colleges of education in the country.
This, he explained, informed the decision of the NCCE to embark on the nationwide monitoring and evaluation exercise of academic standards in the study centres of the NTI.
According to him, the exercise, being carried out simultaneously in the six geo-political zones of the country, is part of efforts to ensure quality in the production of teachers through the open distance learning mode of education.
Junaid, who noted that criticism of production of poor quality of teachers by colleges of education and other teacher-producing institutions could be justified, said that the regulatory body could not be absolved of the blame for the trend.
He said, “It is against this backdrop that the NCCE in 2008 commenced the monitoring and evaluation of academic standards in all NCE awarding institutions, with the main objective of finding out the extent to which the institutions are keeping faith with the policies and programmes of teacher education at the sub-degree level.”
Junaid, the NCCE had from 2008 till now carried out similar monitoring and evaluation exercise in the 21 Federal colleges of education, 42 state governments’ colleges of education, and 14 private colleges of education across the country.
“The outcome of the exercise was indeed quite revealing. Certain aspects of quality and quality tracking which were not captured or addressed by the earlier quality assurance exercises were equally handled in the monitoring and evaluation exercise,” he said.
Junaid said that the exercise would impact positively on quality of teacher training programme in the country because exercise of such nature enhances quality assurance programme either in the conventional or open distance learning system.
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