Teachers Council Plans to Accommodate Visually Impaired in Professional Exams

Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, Registrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has said plans were underway to accommodate teachers who are visually impaired in subsequent Teachers Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE).
Ajiboye disclosed while speaking on the sidelines of the just concluded 2018 Batch A Computer Based Teachers PQE in ‎Abuja.
He added that the council would also accommodate teachers who had been taught in Arabic language only.

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“We have candidates with special needs especially the visually impaired ‎ teachers and they have approached us.
” Presently what we do is to register them but we are already in discussion with Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo, to be able to develop our modules in braille.
“and the same thing will apply to the questions, so that we develop both the modules and questions in braille.

“When we are able to come up with this we will be able to meet the visually impaired teachers.
“With regard to the Arabic teachers, this are set of teachers who are actually trained purely in Arabic, they were not trained in English.
“We are also in discussion with some institutions that can help us look at this and then they will now translate our modules into Arabic language and also the questions as well will be translated into Arabic language .

“So when we are able to do this we will be able to meet this two categories of teachers.
“It is a development and it is a good effort that is in progress and I think by the time we are able to do this two we will be able to bring on board as many teachers as possible. ”

June 11, 2018