Over 30,000 teachers to attend 2nd TRCN national online conference – Ajiboye

The Registrar/Chief Executive of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) Professor Segun Ajiboye on Friday stated that over 30, 000 registered teachers will participate in an online capacity building conference.

The conference which is in collaboration with UNESCO according to Ajiboye holds between Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd August, 2022.

The TRCN boss who gave the theme of the conference as “Strengthening Teacher Capacity for more resilient, transformative and inclusive education system” argued that the Council will continue to seek ways of improving the capacity of registered teachers towards qualitative delivery of their mandates.

According to him, “the 2022 annual conference of registered teachers is the 2nd edition of the conference and over 30,000 participants have registered online, while about 9000 followers are expected to follow on our social media handles such as Facebook streaming live. Similarly, over 10,000 others will view the program live on UNESCO social media handles.The conference parades arrays of speakers from me academia, development partners and active practitioners.”

Professor Ajiboye disclosed that “a couple of others will be viewing the program in set up veiwing centers across three States namely Jigawa, Kano and Kaduna.

Ajiboye stated that the online conference is one of the already institutionalized mechanisms put in place to fulfil the mandates of TRCN.

The conference which will be declared opened by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu is also being supported by PLANE and Save -the- Children- International (SCI) with support from sister agencies such as NCCE and NTI.

Ajiboye who stated that the 1st edition of the conference was held January 26th and 27th, 2021 added that the Council will not rest on its oars towarding getting knowledge of registered teachers updated towards imparting sound knowledge capable of transforming the country.