(http://fmi.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Minister-of-Education-Professor-Ruqayyatu-Ahmed-Rufa'i-making-her-presentation-at-Ministerial-Platform-2013.-300x200.jpg) The achievements recorded by the Teachers' Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, have been showcased as evidence that Nigeria is already implementing important components of the PACTED Roadmap.
Some of the achievements listed include: Registration of over one million teachers and licensing of the registered ones; Engagement of employers of teachers and other stakeholders to rid the teaching profession of quacks and improve the status, image and performance of the teaching profession; Strengthening professional discipline among teachers through development, publication and distribution of Teachers Code of Conduct and Professional Standards and establishment of Teachers Investigating Panel across the country.
This was revealed by Nigeria's Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa'i while addressing ministers and delegates at the Meeting of Ministers of PACTED III.
The meeting which is being held at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa is the third in the series of meetings of the Pan African Conference on Teacher Development, PACTED.
While examining the main reasons for PACTED, she said, everyone was aware of member-countries' commitments to continental and global education agenda such as the AU Second Decade of Education in Africa (2006-2015), MDGs and EFA goals. "At the heart of all these are issues relating to the teacher. It is therefore, in addressing some of the challenges that that Nigeria established some institutions, including the TRCN for handling teacher–related issues with some far-reaching efforts."
Professor Rufa'i said the PACTED forum provides opportunities for information sharing and deepening of commitment by member states towards addressing major teacher-related challenges. "This forum is therefore, another opportunity to seriously take stock of what has been done in this area and chart the way forward in order to meet the 2015 deadline."
Still dwelling on achievements of Nigeria in relation to PACTED, she said, TRCN's initiative led to the establishment of the Africa Forum of Teaching Regulatory Authorities (AFTRA), which is an association of the agencies with statutory powers to regulate the teaching profession in Africa. TRCN disseminates the vision and mission of the African Teacher Mobility Protocol among member Teaching Regulatory Authorities and other stakeholders. This has led to the development of an Africa Teacher Mobility and Development Protocol which has a wider scope and would add value to what PACTED is doing.
While wishing the body, fruitful deliberations, she concluded that it is important that PACTED ministers leave good footprints on the sand of time even as they deliberate on the agenda for this meeting.
Professor Rufa'i was represented at the meeting by Nigeria's Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Dr. MacJohn Nwaobiala.
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