Over widespread failure in teacher licensure examinations, relevant parties must be invited. - Apaak

 

The Minority in Parliament wants various players in the education system called before Parliament's Education Committee to discuss the huge failure of teachers in the licensing exams resit in 2023.

The National Teaching Council, several Colleges of Education and their affiliates, and the Ghana Education Service, according to the Minority, should brief the Committee on the underlying issues contributing to teacher failure.

In an interview with Citi News, Dr. Clement Apaak, Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament's Education Committee, emphasized the need of inviting important stakeholders to the failure in order to solve the issue.

"Education stakeholders, particularly the parliamentary subcommittee on education, should hold a hearing by inviting those charged with preparing teachers, such as colleges of education, universities to which the various colleges are affiliated, the National Teaching Council, the Ghana Education Service, and the Ministry of Education so that we can find out exactly where the problem is and why such a large number of teachers failed to pass a l

A total of 6,451 teachers failed the 2023 Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination, which was held in May 2023.

'National security danger' from mass failure - NTC

Dennis Osei-Owusu, the National Teaching Council's (NTC) Public Relations Officer (PRO), has stated that the high failure rate in the 2023 Teacher Licensure Examination is a "national security threat."

In an interview with Eyewitness News on Citi FM, Osei-Owusu claimed that the failure rate of instructors who took the re-sit tests is the reason for alarm, as it suggests that many teachers who are still to enter the teaching profession are not qualified to be termed teachers.

"As a country, we must pay attention to this national security threat." Some of these professors are writing for the ninth time, while others are writing for the second time. We really need to pay attention to this because we're talking about instructors coming to train our next generation, and if a teacher can't even spell his or her own name, we've got a problem," he said.