UK-Nigeria Teacher Training Turn Out 25 Graduands

The frantic search for solutions to the poor standard of teaching in the country received a boost recently as a six-month intensive training for select teachers in Lagos State was rounded up.

The training project, titled UK-Nigeria Teacher Training (UNITET) under the partnership of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Otto-Ijanikin, Lagos and Havering College of Further and Higher Education in the United Kingdom, through its Education Partnership in Africa (EPA) project, was sponsored by the British Council’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

Hakeem Ajose-Adeogun, Provost of AOCOED said Nigerin teachers need to be provided with modern days skills that will make them result-oriented professionally. Thus, the main objective of the programme is to raise professional teachers that would groom young scholars in the country.

“The sole objective of UNITET is to enhance teachers’ professional skills in terms of teaching standard and building of confidence at work to ensure that they meet up with the teaching demands of the 21st century, which hinges on innovativeness,” Ajose-Adeogun said at the certificate presentation ceremony held at the Otto-Ijanikin campus of the College.

Aside the rich programme modules that include lectures, teaching practice, observation and assessment, successful applicants were also given the opportunity to progress to a full-time post-graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in the UK subject to validating universities admission criteria.

Speaking to P.M.NEWS after the training, the Project Coordinator, (United Kingdom) Mrs. Tina Mgbachi said the project became necessary at this point to reverse the falling education standard in Nigeria.