The Ghana Education Service has indicated that there will soon be an introduction of licence for teachers in the country.
The licence has become necessary to rectify the poor teaching skills of teachers.
“They are too bad to be recognized as teachers that is why the licencing is coming,” Public Relations Officer (PRO) at the Ghana Education Service (GES), Reverend Jonathan Betty disclosed.
In order to acquire the licence, exams will be conducted for the teachers to assess their performance.
According to the GES PRO, all professional entities in the country sit for licensing examination after school before they are allowed to practice.
“Nurses are licensed and there are few others that are also licensed before they are recognized...If Ghana as a country needed education standard to be high the implementers or the people who impart the knowledge must also be in high standard,” he added.
Commenting on the issue on 'Kokrokoo' on Peace FM, the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper expressed disagreement with the initiative.
Mr. Pratt wondered why teachers will have to sit for exams before they get a licence to practice.
To him, the exams should form part of the training the teachers gain from their various training institutions and so it's needless for them to do another exams to be licenced.
“If there’s an exam that if you don’t write and pass, you can’t teach; it should be part of teacher training,” Pratt said.
Though he admitted that the licensing is a good policy, the Education Ministry and GES should not implement it without the consent of GNAT, NAGRAT and other teacher associations in the country.
He called on the Ministry and GES to consult with the teacher associations to find ways to initiate the licensing policy.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Another ediot. What sensible minds are saying is that the exams is already part of their training so why do you want them to take new exams for licence. Do courses for them that would improve their skills, but introducing new exams is a way of getting rid of teachers which is wrong.
I hope after licensing you will treat them same way as doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Let teachers go on strike and you look elsewhere, they have the worst conditions of service. And even GNAT which was to help them with housing loans etc just enjoy their dues and use it to educate the top My mother taught for 40 years including being a director of education at retirement but her person and rewards nothing to write home about and even to get the pension I had to follow up for almost a year because at a point she just gave up. It had to take a school mate at the Accountant General's office to help finalise, no body cares. Don't kill teaching as it is the poor citizens who will suffer all the NDC, NPP, CPP, PPP etc politicians can afford to take their kids to private schools..
This is the irony of teaching. We want teachers to take exams before they are given licence meanwhile people think anybody can be a teacher. Not fair.
I guess you a baby! What trash have your posted here? This topic is for sensible minds so if you don't have anything sensible to say, ***barred word***. Can you imagine the government telling doctors to or lawyers to take exams again for licenses after they have already gone through several years of their training and pass their exams to receive their certification? In any case, if this is a policy of government it should cut across board. All professionals should be examined again. As simple as that. Not only teachers.
Is this moose Ghana's policy maker on education? It's sad that Ghana's so-called journalists are so empty in everything. Think of this Pratt thing, the other thing called Kweku Baako, and the rest. Unfortunately, they are the loudest and are always hopping from one radio station to the other. Is the what we deserve as a nation?
Npp would go to opposition peeeeeeeeeer. Their policies are utmost ffoolish. Teachers go through 3 year post secondary education where they are examined and when they pass, the are given cert A or diploma. How would one be given a diploma if he did not write an exam. All trained teachers have been examined through their training. Those who failed resat their exams before they were given their certificates and diplomas. This type of if you can't carry your load you blame your head cushion tactics must stop. They simply don't know what they are about. No one is saying teachers should be below average, but instituting a new policy for them to keep writing new exams for new license is uncalled for. Already teachers are doing refresher courses to improve their skills. That is the way to go. This is a subtle way of sacking teachers, but they need to understand that teachers made them who they are now. Probably because, they found some teacher could not speak grammar properly that's why they want them write new exams. If go to other countries the teach and learn in their native languages so don't blame some teachers for their poor English speaking skills. With training they would catch up.
I believe Kwasi Pratt has outlived his usefulness to nation building. A seasoned journalist of his caliber to talk like that on this important licensing for teachers. For Ghana to move forward we cannot look up to this old block of people.