Digital Literacy: FG to facilitate exchange program for professional teachers
Teachers' digital skills acquisition to be facilitated by Digital Bridge Institute
The Federal Ministry of Education has moved to facilitate teachers exchange programs with the Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy.
The program will develop the digital literacy capacity of teachers in Nigeria.
This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, in Abuja when he was monitoring the conduct of the Teachers Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE) organized by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria.
The minister said the Federal Ministry of Education was working out details with the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy to use digital bridge institute facilities across the six geo-political zones of the country to enhance the computer knowledge of the Nigerian teachers.
Nwajiuba also disclosed that the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria TRCN has been mandated to work with the Nigerian Union of Teachers NUT to activate the One teacher One Computer programme.
He said through the Federal Ministry of Education will enable laptop vendors to vend to teachers while they have the payment done within the period of two to four years.
“We are working in collaboration with the ministry of communication and digital economy to do exchange programs with teachers to use the digital bridge institutes that had already been built by the Federal Ministry of Communication and we are still working on the details”.
“The Federal Ministry of Education will enable laptop vendors to vend to teachers and we will give them a period of time of 2-4years period of time to complete the payment, we have finished carrying out interviews for the vendors we just want the NUT and TRCN to conclude”.
