The Managing Director of Nigeria Turkish College, Mr. Hassan Husseini Aygun has stressed the need for teachers to continue to up-date themselves with modern techniques of teaching.
He spoke in Abuja at the weekend during a seminar for the teachers of the college. The seminar was organized by the management of the college.
Mr. Aygun said the seminar, apart from being designed to harp the teaching skills of the teachers, was also an opportunity for teachers in colleges from different parts of the country, and Turkey to cross fertilize ideas.
According to him, the college has put in place certain measures, such as electronic boards and improved use of Information and Communication Technology in teaching.
He said some of the exploits of the school in both local and international competition has set it out among its peers in Africa.
The minister of State for Education, Aisha Jubril Dukku commended the school for packing the seminar.
She said time had gone when teaching was used as a stepping stone for other professions, pointing that the federal government was doing everything possible to make the profession attractive.
While describing teaching as a noble profession, the minister said one of the steps being taken by the federal government to encourage people to take to teaching was the professionlisation of teaching.
The Nigeria Turkish college is a chain of colleges established to foster closer diplomatic and academic relationship between Nigeria and Turkey. The college can be found in Kano, Kaduna, Lagos and Abuja.