GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

Teaching profession has been bastardized in recent years, by ‘cheaters’ who claim to be teachers. Little is known about why individuals take up teaching as a profession, and this prompted the researcher to undertake this study to determine the reasons for low enrolment of JAMB (Joint Admission and Matriculation Board) candidates into the Faculty of Education and Colleges of Education. Prospective JAMB candidates Senior Secondary School 111 students) were used as the population of the study, to get their reasons for applying for admission into other Faculties, rather than the Faculty of Education, and those of them in Faculty of Education came in there because they could not secure admission into other Faculties. Four research questions were posed to guide the study. A Questionnaire was the main instrument used to elicit information from the respondents regarding their choice of teaching as a career. The results show that students who choose to make teaching their future career hoped that it will expand or broaden their horizon, sharpen their skill of communication and give them enough time to do other businesses. Those that did not want to take to teaching posited that it has low public value/status, it is a stop-gap profession, has poor working environment and is generally, women profession. A percentage frequency was used to analyze the data and recommendations were made to the government, society and the teachers.