The co-founder, Bridge International Academies, Dr. Shannon May, has said that many Nigerian Certificate of Education holders (NCE) failed the institution's teaching assessment tests. This was as she said that certificates were not the only consideration in the recruitment of teachers.
MY TAKE....
It is laughable in the first and it is bound to happen. This is kind of result a nation like Nigeria will get when priority are misplaced and when lopsidedness characterized our admission policy into tertiary institutions, when we allow the best to be admitted into the university and allowed the frustrated ones, those who can't secure admission into either University and polytechnics were force to go into colleges of education without personal interest and flair for teaching and those who just want the certificate, just because Nigeria public arena has been bastardized and became certificate oriented society, where certificate is valued over capacity to deliver, skills and interest.
We have not seen anything, the better the stakeholders, playmakers and policymakers rise up to the occasions and face the challenge now, the better for all of us and our children. The dearth of quality teacher is bound to boomerang tomorrow if care is not taken.
In Finland, the best students are send into teaching profession, because they knew over there, that the future lies in the quality of the teachers and the quality of substance pour into the pupils and student.
There is fire on the mountain and no one seems to be running. I am weeping for our children and the future that is bleak.
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