The Western and Western North Regional Chairman for the Ghana National Association of Teachers(GNAT), Mr. Obeng Nyamekye has emphatically stated that the total of 6,451(83.5%) teachers failed in the 2023 Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination conducted in May 2023 should not blamed on the National Teaching Council (NTC) but rather should be a wake up call to Colleges of Education and tertiary institutions to up their games and put stringent measures to overcome the abysmal performance exhibited by the supposed teachers who were yet to come into the teaching field.
In an interview with Lord FM News, Mr. Obeng Nyamekye said that the results released by the National Teaching Council after the teachers wrote the re-sit papers should not be treated as joke but a national security threat, ‘we need a public attention to address it”.
He charged Ghanaians that the National Teaching Council (NTC) has only painted a correct picture and if due diligence was not taken, all these teachers could have found themselves in classroom which could affect students or pupils in various public schools.
This, according to him will help principals and tutors in colleges of education and various universities to know how best they can get qualified teachers not thequantity.
Mr Obeng Nyamekye therefore, entreated that, the results from NTC will also help sanitise the Ghana Education Service (GES) and teaching sector at large as stakeholders have come to realisation that there is a problem.
He indicated that the introduction of teacher licensure exams is good to restructure the country’s educational sector.
He was, however, happy that teachers are going to be given a another opportunity to write the examination.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Kwame Kontor Boateng
