NUT rejects FG plan to exempt NCE candidates from UTME

The Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, has opposed the Federal Government’s determination to exempt candidates seeking admittance into the Nigeria Certificate successful Education, NCE, programme from penning the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, informing that the determination could further undermine standards successful teacher education.

The union’s National President, Audu Amba, made the presumption known on Tuesday in Abuja during a sensitisation store for teachers organised by 21st Century successful collaboration with the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN.

Amba expressed interest implicit what helium described arsenic a dependable diminution successful the prime of candidates gaining admittance into colleges of education, noting that galore top-performing students present prioritise universities, leaving acquisition colleges arsenic last-choice institutions.

He warned that the inclination poses a semipermanent hazard to the prime of teaching successful Nigeria, insisting that introduction into the teaching assemblage should pull immoderate of the country’s strongest world performers.

According to him, colleges of acquisition should not beryllium seen arsenic fallback institutions for candidates who neglect to unafraid assemblage admission.

“Why can’t we present accidental that anyone going to College of Education...