The All Nigerian Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools on Wednesday gave support for the proposed clampdown on unqualified and unregistered teachers.
The National President of ANCOPSS, Anselm Izuagie, expressed the support in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
The proposed clampdown is being planned by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria’s.
Izuagie said the clampdown would improve the standard of education.
According to him, unqualified teachers are making teaching unproductive.
He said: “When there is standard in the quality of teachers, there will be quality in the output.
“We are tired of the negative reports that the profession is unproductive due to non-regulation of the system.”
Izuagie said that the TRCN had the legislative enablement to carry out the task.
He added that recruitment of non-professional teachers would be eliminated if the schools that employed them would be closed down, de-registered and had their licences withdrawn.
According to him, governments, especially some state governments, are not doing enough to improve the quality of teachers and boost their morale.
The union leader urged that governments should be determined to carry out necessary reforms in the education sector to improve standards.
He said that poor funding, policy somersault, infrastructure decay, insecurity and misplaced appointments were some challenges in the sector.
Also in an interview with NAN in Lagos, Tajudeen Tijani, the Education Secretary of Lagos Mainland Local Government, said that the clampdown was long overdue.
He said that it would go a long way to improve teaching and learning.
Tijani urged the TRCN to ensure professionalism in teaching.
– NAN