Teacher licensure exams: Relevant stakeholders must be invited over mass failure – Apaak

The Minority in Parliament wishes for all stakeholders in the sector of education to be called before the Committee of Education of Parliament over the massive failure of teachers in the 2023 licensure examination resit.

According to the Minority of Parliament, the National Teaching Council (NTC), the Colleges of Education, their affiliate universities, and the Ghana Education Service (GES) has to explain to the Committee, the underlying factors that contributed to massive failure of the teachers.

In an interview on Citi News, Dr. Clement Apaak, the Deputy Ranking Member on the Education Committee of Parliament, underlined the necessity to summon the various stakeholders for a briefing on the failure with hopes of finding a panacea to the issue.

“The stakeholders in education and the parliamentary sub-committee on education in particular ought to hold a hearing by inviting those charged with preparing teachers which will include the colleges of education, the universities that the various colleges are affiliated to, the National Teaching Council, the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education so that we find out exactly where the problem is and why such a colossal number of teachers failed to pass a licensure exam.” He stated

According to the statistics that came out on the Ghana Teacher Licensure Exams (GTLE), a total of 6,451 out of a grand total of 7,728 teachers failed the 2023 Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination conducted and taken in May 2023.

Mass failure is seen as a ‘national security threat’ according to the National Teaching Council (NTC).

Dennis Osei-Owusu, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of NTC has said that the massive failure in the 2023 Teacher Licensure Examination is a “national security threat.”

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Osei-Owusu, speaking in an interview on Eyewitness News on Citi FM explained that the rate at which teachers who took the re-sit exams failed, is a cause for concern. In light of that, he further explained the mass failure implies that many teachers who are yet to join the teaching fraternity are not fit enough to be called and to become teachers.

“This is a national security threat that we need to pay attention to as a country. Some of these teachers have written for the ninth time and others for the second time. We really need to pay attention to this because we are talking about teachers coming to train our future generation so if a teacher cannot even spell his or her own name then we have something at hand,” he explained.

TTAG President speaks on the Mass failure in the Ghana Teacher Licensure Exams