The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN is to partner with ‘Instill Education,’ an International Organisation to train school teachers and other school management across Nigeria.
Speaking during an official visit to the Registrar of TRCN in Abuja, Ghana Country, Lead of Instill Education, Sarah Osei, who led the team, shed more light on the organisation’s activities and plans to extend operations to Nigeria in 2023 through TRCN.
While saying the organisation is looking forward to leveraging on TRCN’s robust database of teachers, Osei said Instill Education would commence its collaboration with the Council in the first quarter of 2023 to train Nigerian teachers for eight weeks.
Pilot Test Training
According to her, the training, which is a pilot test intervention programme, is to equip teachers with 21st century skills to address identified professional development gaps.
Registrar/Chief Executive of TRCN, Professor Josiah Olusegun Ajiboye, expressed delight over the visit and reiterated the Council’s readiness for partnership and synergy to build the capacity of Nigerian teachers.
Instill Education is a pan- African EdTech higher Education institution focusing on teacher capacity development and professionalism to reposition Africa towards achieving continental and Global education goals to improve learning outcomes.
The organisation, with headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa, has since 2015, delivered over 1.5 million hours of professional development, coaching and mentoring sessions to above 100, 000 teachers and school leaders across five countries which include Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and India.
Lateefah Ibrahim