Teachers may
soon earn higher salaries than other workers in the country. Minister of
Education, Adamu Adamu dropped the hint while inaugurating the Governing
Councils of Federal Colleges of Education in Abuja on Thursday.
He said the
teaching profession had ceased to be an “all-comers affairs”.
Represented
by the Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Gozie Anwukah, he said
government had understudied the Malaysian educational system and decided to
take a critical look at teaching and teacher education.
He, however,
sounded a note of warning that teachers across all levels must register with
the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) before the end of this
year or risk being sent out of the system.
The minister
noted that Malaysia in the quest for greatness had reorganised its educational
sector for effective development of human resources to take it to the present
position.
He said:
“What they did was to bring down the whole system and resuscitated the
education sector. Their planning was geared towards the development of human
resources. In Malaysia, many of those who scored the highest in their
equivalent of our JAMB compete to be teachers.
“If you are
a teacher in Malaysia, you are ranked higher than any other worker in the
country. This is why you would find people with PhDs teaching in primary
schools. We have made that recommendation and we are going to implement it in
Nigeria,” he said.
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