CIIN initiates insurance teachers’ forum

Temowo

Chuks Udo Okonta

The Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) plans to establish an Insurance Teachers Forum that will help provide a platform for interface between the Institute and the teachers at secondary and tertiary levels for the enhancement of their capacities to deliver qualitative insurance education.

This is one of the cardinal goals the institute’s new President Bola Temowo, said he hopes to achieve during his tenure.

He disclosed this In Lagos, adding that the depth of insurance education calls for an urgent need to establishment forum. He noted that this will, among other things, provide a platform for interface between the Institute and the teachers at both secondary and tertiary levels for the enhancement of their capacities to deliver qualitative Insurance Education.

He maintained that the forum has become necessary as it has been observed that most Insurance teachers, especially in Secondary schools, do not possess Insurance certification.

Temowo noted that efforts would still be made to collaboration with the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) to consider the integration of insurance into the Teachers Training Scheme in the Colleges of Education to boost the production of qualified Insurance teachers.

He said the College of Insurance owned by the institute will soon commence a train-the-trainers scheme, which is geared to providing induction courses for insurance teachers and trainers across the country.