National Teachers' Institute, NTI, has said that about 80 percent of all school teachers in most states in the north were not qualified for the job.
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Director-General of the Institute, Dr. Aminu Sharehu, said this yesterday in Zaria, Kaduna State, at a national conference on Quality Assurance and Control in Teacher Education as a Tool for Achieving Millennium Development Goals, organised by Federal College of Education, Zaria.
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However, Governor Muhktar Yero of Kaduna State, who also spoke on the occasion, said that only 50 percent of the teachers in his state were not qualified and not 80.
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Sharehu said: "Over 80 percent of teachers in the North are under-qualified because there is no motivation.
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"You need to train and retrain teachers because the National Certificate in Education, NCE, is just a start point. In the teaching profession, we do not have learned people, but learning people because we believe that there is no end to learning.
That is a big shame on North in general...A big shame to the whole of Nigeria herself. Such things tarnishes image.