It is cruel and unfair to reject teachers because they did not pass a 3-hour licensure exam

General news for Thursday, September 24, 2020

Source: My GH news

2020-09-24

The running mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has reiterated that the issue of standardization that generated the teacher bachelor exams was not well thought out before being implemented by the current administration.

She commented: “The licensing exam for teachers I think is Law 778, this law was passed in 2008 when Naana Opoku Agyemang was not near the Ministry of Education. President Mahama was also not close to the presidency.

“It had three arms, the NaCCA, the National Board of Inspection and the National Teaching Council. So one of the questions I ask myself is why we have the National Board of Inspection in the GES and we have added this license to it. So we studied it a bit and the argument about this license is that the UCC provides education, this is the case in Winneba and some private institutions, so there is no standard. “

He regretted the aspects of the policy that make it impossible for a person to teach in Ghana without a license, even if that person has gone through a 3- or 4-year study program at the tertiary level.

“So after going through a 3- or 4-year course depending on the course of study and passing all your exams, you are presented with your certificate only to be told that there is another exam that, if you don’t pass, you can’t teach in Ghana, so I think it’s unfair. “

Speaking during her recent campaign tour of the Central Region covered by MyNewsGh.com, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, who is also the former Vice Chancellor of the UCC, said that her understanding of licensing is not a three-hour exam without guidelines. formalized. .

She continued: “I think this is a simple matter because our curriculum at the tertiary level is internally approved by the academic board together with the National Council for Tertiary Education, of which I was once a member of the academic board.

“We pass their rigorous form of the test, so there are ways to standardize it. So when I came up with the idea of ​​getting the license, it wasn’t three hour exams. I never thought that was the ideal solution. I don’t think so because it is a long-term practical profession, ”Tetteh Nartey told Benjamin Tetteh on GBC Radio Central monitored by MyNewsGh.com.