More Than 80 Percent Of School Teachers In Ghana Passed The Teaching Licensure Examination More than 80% of Ghanaian school teachers faile...
More Than 80 Percent Of School Teachers In Ghana Passed The Teaching Licensure Examination
More than 80% of Ghanaian school teachers failed the test to obtain their teaching licence, which has sparked debate among stakeholders who believe it poses a serious threat to the nation's security.
To assure the calibre and expertise of teachers instructing schoolchildren in Ghana, teacher licencing exams were held in 2018.
However, the country's efforts to improve the quality of education are suffering a setback as a result of the teachers' tests, which keep failing.
According to statistics, 6,551 of the 7,728 instructors who took the exam in May of this year failed it, or 83.5 percent of them.
As a result, Dennis Osei Owusu, the secretary of the NTC National Council of Teachers, declared that Ghana's security was seriously at risk.
"I regard this as a huge threat to national security," he declared, "since these are the teachers who will instruct our youngsters in the schools. You'll wonder how they got into this department until I have a chance to see how some of them presented their responses to the questions.
The principal of Kumasi's Ibadu Rahman Secondary School, Sir. Bashiru Shehu, a commentator on educational matters, ascribed the school teachers' failure on their lack of preparation for the exams, specifically their lack of study and organisation.
He stated, "In certain schools, teachers are sent after completing their undergraduate degrees to complete their national service before returning to write this exam. Before they return, some have forgotten a lot of information, and some teachers are unable to study.
In order to address this issue, the African Centre for Education and Culture, which provides education and cultural advice to African governments, has requested that the government reassess the nation's teacher preparation programme.
The institute's director, Saeed Sulaiman, stated, "If the government wants to solve this issue, it should be looked into and changed in teacher training institutes across the nation because it is shocking that 83 percent of people who took the exam will fail to teach. There is a problem, and it needs to be viewed from the colleges' point of view.
The National Union of Teachers, or GNAT for short, responded by claiming that this is a national issue that needs to be discussed at the negotiation table in order to prevent a repeat of the incident.
"Considering what is happening now, what explanation will be given to the country's tax payers?" asked Thomas Musah, the association's secretary. We are requesting an agreement between the parties.
To date, the National Council of Teachers, which is in charge of organising the tests, has claimed that it has put in place a mechanism to support teachers' professional growth in order to guarantee that there will always be experts available to instruct pupils in classrooms.