The National Teaching Council (NTC) has warned Teacher Trainees against boycotting the impending Licensing exams.
There’s been heightened tension among some teachers with just two weeks to the exams. One of the aggrieved groups, the newly trained teachers is demanding an outright suspension of the exams claiming that reading materials and reference have not been available.
But the Public Relations Officer of the NTC, Dennis Osei Owusu in an interview shot down the demand.
“We don’t have any mandate to regulate teachers and so they met their leadership at a workshop and that was what they proposed but that doesn’t mean that is what the law says. The second one is with the material issue, I don’t think any professional examination body gives materials to students, you’re only given a curriculum that can help you. We’ve provided everything and so I’m just shocked that they’re still on that same thing. They just want to thwart the whole thing and make sure they don’t write the exams.
“From the 18th to 25th we went to all the colleges to sensitize them on this exam they’re going to write and so I don’t know where they are getting their information from.”
In 2017, the Ghana Education Service (GES) announced that henceforth all teacher trainee graduates will sit for a licensing exams.
According to the GES, all teacher trainee graduates will require a lincense to be recognized as a professional teacher.
The reform is part of the sector’s professional development and it applies to both trainee teachers graduating from public and private teacher training colleges.
Anyone who fails will does not qualify to be a professional teacher.
