NCCE threatens sanction on COEs over accreditation status

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[contextly_auto_sidebar id=”fwYnK3rfUbv9el6xZzfe7MBdf64iDFAj”]The National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) has threatened to wield the big stick on some erring teacher training colleges that fail to regularise their accreditation status before the 2016-2017 academic year.

Executive Secretary of the Commission,Professor Monday Joshua who handed down the notice at an interactive forum with the media on Monday,said such measure may become necessary, considering complaints of declining teacher quality in the country.

He said the Commission would in no distant time, liase with the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board(JAMB)to ensure that from the 2016/17 academic year, accreditation and students’ result status will form the benchmark for admission of new NCE students into any of the colleges.

Professor Joshua said beyond funding which most of the institutions pose as challenges for not meeting their accreditation requirement,they were indeed flaunting the commission’s mandate as enshrined in the 1989 decree and amended in 1993,which stipulates that the systems/procedures,infrastructure,human resource capacity,the research outlay and quality of teacher education must conform to the Act.

As the Commission marks its silver jubilee on Tuesday,Joshua exonerated the commission for declining teacher quality,saying production of quality teachers does not happen in a vacuum,rather it responds to the intricacies of society.

He said pre-1979 teaching work-force in the country were adjudged to be better and had higher quality of education because the society was then evolving as a nation, but that things started taking a turn for the worse post 1979.

“The call for innovation,creativity and quality teacher education has never been as demanding as in the 21st century,with rapid socio-economic changes,more and more complex problems,associated with quality teacher preparation in the commission and her colleges of education across the country has become germane.
“Central to these issues is the problem of accreditation,it is however unfortunate to say that some of the colleges are not up to date in terms of having current accreditation status. The reason is largely traceable to inadequate funding. We have already warned the Colleges that their accreditation and students’ result status will constitute the basis for admission of new NCE students from JAMB into the 2016/2017 school year,” he stated.

He noted that in the 25 years of the Commission’s existence, it has made positive history through significant achievements in relation to her core mandate on teacher education in Nigeria.

His words, ”In the context of the expectations of the teacher education programme for the 21st century societal challenges,the commission has pursued its mission with guided vision and close supervision by the Federal Ministry of Education”.

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