44,000 teachers failed 2022 teacher licensure exams – NTC
Approximately 44,000 prospective teachers failed this academic year’s Ghana teacher licensure examination (GTLE), the Registrar of the National Teaching Council (NTC), Dr Christian Addai Poku has disclosed at a town hall meeting.
Speaking at the 2022/23 Cohort – Leading Girls’ Learning Programme town hall meeting organised by the Institute of Teacher Education and Development (INTED) he said that 120,000 teachers registered for the licensure examination.
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“The results of the Ghana teacher licensure examinations are worrying, considering the poor performance of the teachers who were supposed to be imparting knowledge to children,” the Teaching Council Director told stakeholders.
Meanwhile, the management of the National Teaching Council (NTC) has said it will not publish the Ghana teacher licensure examination (GTLE results) statistics to indicate candidates who passed or failed the teacher licensure test.
In a discussion with the Teacher Trainees’ Association of Ghana (TTAG), the Registrar of NTC, Dr Christian Addai Poku said his outfit’s decision not to declare the statistics are to avoid misinterpretation of the results by the media.
“The media always report the failure of graduate teachers who sat for the licensure examination, they don’t comment on the positive side, so this year NTC will not publish the GTLE results statistics,” the Council’s Registrar told TTAG.
Responding to allegations that National Council intentionally failed graduates who sat for the examination, Dr Addai Poku stated the teachers who were mainly re-sitters were not prepared for the examination, hence the mass failure.
“Majority of the trained teachers who sit for the national examination are resit students and their preparation towards the Ghana teacher licensure examination (GTLE) is inadequate,” Dr Christian Addai Poku told journalists last year.
In a related development, the National Teaching Council (NTC) says this year’s Colleges of Education (CoE) graduands about to receive an academic degree are not eligible to write the Ghana teacher licensure examination (GTLE).
In an interview with AcademicWeek.com, an official of the Teaching Council said candidates to partake in the national examination for teachers dressing should be formal with no bathroom slippers popularly known as ‘chalewote.’