About 13,000 candidates participated in the May edition of the Teachers’ Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE), conducted by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) nationwide.
The Acting Registrar of TRCN, Stella Maria Nwokeocha, disclosed this while monitoring the exercise at the Computer-Based Test Centre of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in Wuse II, Abuja.
She said reports from centres across the country indicated a hitch-free exercise, adding that due to the rescheduling of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the PQE was, however, shifted in some states.
Also speaking at the Abuja centre, Chairman of the TRCN Governing Board, Dr. Saliu Mustapha who praised the smooth conduct of the examination and the large turnout of participants, acknowledged the efforts by the minister of education to weed out unqualified teachers from classrooms through the use of technology..
The PQE results are expected to be released in a week’s time.
The qualification examination is conducted by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) to test the professional competence of teachers.
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