Kwesi Pratt, managing editor of the Insight Newspaper has also reacted to the mass failure of the just ended teacher licensure exams.
Speaking on Good Morning Ghana show on Metro TV, Kwesi Pratt clearly stated the teacher licensure exams is absolutely useless. According to him, it doesn’t really make sense for teachers to go through the colleges of education only to test them again through a licensure exam before posting them to their respective teaching fields.
Kwesi Pratt believes that the licensure exam only proves that the country’s teacher education system is flawed.
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“You take people through a system of preparing them to be teachers, at the end of the programme, they take exams. You marked the exams and certified them to be qualified to be teachers. If after certifying them as qualified persons who can teach, we come up with this. What are you saying? That the whole teacher educational system is flawed. That’s what we are talking about.
“This licensing is not necessary, it’s absolutely useless. If you have a teacher education system which produces qualified teachers, we don’t need to license them. Their certificate ought to be enough, Kwesi Pratt said.
ABOUT TEACHER LICENSURE EXAMS
The National Teaching Council is mandated by the Education Act 2008 (Act 778), Section 9 to improve professional standing and status of teachers and to license and register teachers in Ghana. The purpose of the Licensing Examination is to enable qualified teachers acquire a professional license; and also attract excellent young graduates from the universities and Colleges of Education who have the required professional knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to deliver effectively in schools.
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Eligibility
All Prospective candidates who hold the Diploma in Basic Education (DBE), Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) or a Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE), M.Ed and are desirous of seeking employment as teachers.
All the above-mentioned candidates who completed in 2021 or before 2022 qualify to write the examination at a Regional Centre of their choice
Candidates who have written the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination and are not successful, as well as fresh candidates, can register.