Getting
Your TRCN Professional Certification or/and Letter of Professional Standing for
Your QTS Evaluation
To save you of some
reading time, this write-up will talk about:
1. Nigerians abroad who
need their TRCN Professional Certification and how they can go about applying
for the TRCN Professional Qualification Exam (PQE), how they will write the
exam, how they will check their results, how they will apply for their
certificate, and how they will get the professional certificate. Nigerians in
Nigeria who need same will also get insights from this section.
2. Nigerians abroad who
want to get their TRCN Letter of Professional Standing, how they can go about
the application, the difference between TRCN Professional Certificate and TRCN
Letter of Professional Standing, how you can get a TRCN Letter of Professional
Standing sent to an evaluation body for you, and so on. Nigerians in Nigeria who need same will also
get insights from this section.
For Nigerians abroad
who want to get their TRCN Professional Certification evaluated or want to use
it for other purposes abroad, TRCN has finally realized that not everybody
would be able to write the Professional Qualification Exam (PQE) in Nigeria,
and there are teachers abroad who need this certification as well; it is good
that they have created an opportunity for Nigerians in diaspora to write the PQE
and get certified just like their counterparts who write theirs in Nigeria. The
only difference is that while Nigerians in Nigeria write theirs together online
at a designated centre in Nigeria and the exam is written two times every year,
Nigerians abroad get to write theirs individually online from abroad and the
exam is written every month. The only bad side of this is that both candidates
in Nigeria and candidates in the diaspora will have to apply in person (TRCN is
yet to have a public online platform to apply for the exam, so application is
still done on papers). The implication of this is that if you are abroad and
your need the TRCN Professional Certificate, you would need somebody to help
you do the application in Nigeria and also help you submit all the necessary
documents, then you go ahead and write your exam from your abroad.
The results for
diaspora candidates is made ready in shorter period than the results of candidates
who wrote theirs in Nigeria, also, you would still need somebody to go to their
office to check if you passed the exam or not (I do not think they have online
communication of results yet). After you have seen that you passed the exam,
you then can apply for the certificate (you need somebody to help you make this
application at their office as well, as this process is physical too), your
certificate should be ready for pick up by one month thereabouts. Your person
can courier it to you or scan and send the soft copy to you so you can use it
for what you need it for abroad. I believe in the nearest future, TRCN will
realize that the application for this exam, the result checking, the application
for the certificate and the sending of the certificate to diaspora candidates
(especially) need to be 100% online as soon as possible, as the need for this
certification is on the rise than ever—especially amongst diaspora Nigerian
teachers. But before they make such online service available, please be
informed that we can help you do all that’s involved in applying for the exam, checking
your result after writing the exam, applying for the certificate, collecting
the certificate and couriering or scanning it to you, just go ahead and fill this form here and make the payment stated
on the form, we will take it from there and you will have nothing to stress
over. You can contact us on +2348139534187 or info@pecngr.com
for more details.
For Nigerians abroad
who need a TRCN Letter of Professional Standing at an evaluation body (in this
case, Nigerians in UK will be used as point of discussion and QTS will be the
evaluation body to discuss as where they need the document). It must firstly be
stated that TRCN Letter of Processional Standing (LOPS) is not the same as TRCN
Professional Certificate; while the certificate is like the certificate you got when
you graduated from your school, the LOPS is like the transcript your school
provides to report everything about you and your programme. Further explained,
your TRCN Professional Certificate is your evidence that you are a professional
teacher and you have been registered with the teaching professional body in
Nigeria; meanwhile your TRCN Letter of Processional Standing is a detailed
report on your registration with TRCN, how you qualified for the registration,
when you got registered, the field and class you are qualified to teach, and whether
or not you have been a good member of the professional body since you joined it,
etc. I hope this is understood.
Moving forward, it must
also be stated that while your TRCN Professional Certificate is yours to keep,
the TRCN Letter of Processional Standing is an official document exchanged
between TRCN and the institution/organisation you need it at; it can only be
sent to your receiver by TRCN, yours is to apply for it and apply appropriately.
You must also know that before you can be qualified to get a TRCN Letter of
Processional Standing, you must have been a certified member of the
professional body; that is, you must have gotten your TRCN Professional
Certificate. You cannot get a Letter of Processional Standing from TRCN lest
you have already written and passed the TRCN PQE and you have been certified
accordingly. Slimming this explanation down to teachers in the UK needing to
send their TRCN Letter of Processional Standing to QTS for evaluation, you must
firstly apply for the evaluation with QTS, they will give you a reference
number, after which you can then apply for your TRCN Letter of Processional Standing
at TRCN via this email address lops@trcn.gov.ng.
TRCN would charge you #60,000 thereabouts for this, and they will need your QTS
reference number. TRCN would send the Letter of Processional Standing directly
to QTS via this email address applyqts.verification@education.gov.uk.
Do not apply for the Letter of Processional Standing lest you have applied at
QTS. Also, TRCN only provide Letter of Professional Standing for teachers who
are certified with the TRCN Professional Certificate. You can contact us on
+2348139534187 or info@pecngr.com for more
details on this.
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