TRCN Hosts African Counterparts for Quality Education Delivery

Ademola Babalola

Worried by the poor quality of education in Africa, the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) is set to host the 7th Africa Federation of Teaching Regulatory Authorities (AFTRA) Conference to find solutions to issues bothering on how to ensure delivery of quality education in Africa among other pressing issues.

The conference titled ‘Teaching and Learning in Africa in the Context of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) and Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) 2016-2025’ is aimed at charting a sustainable strategy for the delivery of quality education in order to meet SDGs.

The Registrar, TRCN, Professor Segun Ajiboye, who stated this in Ibadan in a chat with journalists, said the conference provides opportunities for exchange of best practices between the statutory regulators of the teaching profession in Africa and members of the global community particularly the academia, ICT experts, employers of teachers, teachers unions and international development partners.

According to him, the AFTRA conference and roundtable which will hold from May 14-19 in Abuja will feature presentations on the implications of terrorism, refugees and internally displaced for education in Africa, as well as the professionalisation of teaching in Africa.

The registrar who noted that attending to poor quality of education in Africa is a continental resolve, stated that Nigeria is also interested in ensuring that the current poor WAEC results and underachievement in schooling is reversed