The Registrar and Chief Executive, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, Prof. Segun Ajiboye, has charged students preparing for major examinations in the country to use the opportunity of COVID-19 lockdown to study well.
This is just as he said students must acknowledge the present challenge to education and be ready for post-COVID season where they may have limited period for revision before taking their major examinations.
Ajiboye who gave the admonition why speaking with journalists in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, said no fewer than 62 million teachers were affected by COVID-19 while about 1.7 billion children globally could not attend schools because of the pandemic.
He stated that parents must support and monitor their children to study on their own in the absence of their teachers, maintaining that Nigeria must leverage on technology to redesign her educational system.
He added that the pandemic caught the industry unawares.
He disclosed further that the TRCN was planning massive digital literacy programme after COVID-19 to impart new training and teaching skills in teachers in the country.
He said, “We cannot be the same again after COVID-19 has gone. We need technology. We need to invest in it. The world is moving and will not wait for us. We must invest in technology to solve most of our problems.
“Our teachers and children are at home. Students need to use this compulsory holiday to prepare well for their examinations and parents must support them with the right motivation and monitoring to ensure that they are ready for their WAEC, NECO or Junior WAEC. “
