Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has described the teacher licensure exams as needles and must be scrapped immediately.
According to him, the mass failure in the licensure examination is a strategy by government to reduce the employment of more teachers in various schools.
Mr. Pratt’s comment follows results released by the National Teaching Council for the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination showed that 6,481 out of 7,728 candidates flunked the test.
The results mean only 1,277 teachers out of the over 7,000 who were seeking to obtain a license to teach in schools passed the state-run test.
The teacher licensure examination was introduced in 2018 to give teachers the requisite certification to practice in Ghana but became a subject of controversy in the country.
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The government had insisted that there was nothing wrong with the process, but the opposition National Democratic Congress said the mode of delivery of the exams was not the best.
Reacting to the mass failure of teachers this year on Atinka FM’s AM Drive with host Kaakyire Ofori Ayim, Mr. Kwesi Pratt Jnr said the outcome of the exams indicates how the quality of training given at the various colleges of education has been reduced to.
He argued that the government should rather focus on equipping the colleges of education to offer quality training for teacher trainees rather than depending on the licensure exams which brings indictment on the training colleges.
Mr. Pratt argued that the licensure examination is “retrogressive and cannot bring out the best in the newly trained teacher.”
Ghana | Atinkaonline.com | Vincent Kwofie.
