The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GHNACOPS) has warned that over 400,000 untrained teachers are set to be laid off come September 2019, if government insists on the teacher licensing.
Government last year through the Ghana Education Service (GES) introduced compulsory teacher Licencing Exams.
The move, according to the GES, was part of the sector’s professional development and it applied to both trainee teachers graduating from public and private teacher training colleges.
The Private schools in a release said teachers’ licensure “would lay off over 400,000 untrained teachers in private schools in Ghana, coming September.”
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Dear KfK, you can be the best driver in the world but if your car is not licensed and it is not road worthy, can you drive?
why wont they allow pupil tutors write the exam to make them qualified whilst at post not to render them jobless. there are a lot of schools in the villages without teachers but a lot of trained teacher are home without job. must all of use go home jobless before we reapply to get a job. it not fair.
Gansah they can not be pupil tutors for life. They need to improve themselves. All they teach is for the private schools pupil to pass BECE that is all. At the SHS level you can tell the different
If we believe in quality education then we should agree to this policy. All the association has to do is to ask for extension and training their teachers whose education are below standard. NPP is in to correct the system, please let support a good course.
Is this nana addo came to do? To render Ghanaians unemployed? No wonder most Ghanaians are disappointed in him. You can't come power and all of a sudden put in place policies that are likely to impoverish the citizens. Care must be taken. I am sure most of these politicians were taught by pupil teachers during thier time in school.
It seems the private schools intentionally do not understand the directive. It said it applied to TEACHER TRAINEES IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTIONS. Are the private schools teacher training institutions? So if you are a private school and you have employed somebody to teach and you are getting result though such teacher is untrained do you have to sack him because he is unlicensed? The blackmail is too much.
Ghana Education Service is the worst culprit. There are trained graduate teachers in Ghana, when it comes to recruit of teachers, the GES then engages other graduates who are not trained to teach at the expense of the TRAINED GRADUATE TEACHERS. Clear the log in your eyes first, How come an aptitude test is conduct for Trained and untrained graduate and 90% of the people selected were the untrained teachers? What do we expect, people who do not know how to prepare lesson notes and with no idea about teaching methodology are in our classrooms. GES COME OUT AND DEFEND YOURSELF. YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.
It's good to regulate the teaching profession. Not everybody working at a hospital can carry out an injection of a patient. It takes a qualified and registered nurse. It's only in Ghana that anybody at all could be employed to teach. Over here, the law is very clear. You need to have a diploma/degree PLUS a TEACHING qualification before you can teach in a primary school, Junior school or Senior School. You first have to apply to a relevant board for PERMISSION to TEACH with certified copies of your academic and professional qualifications; transcripts are required, stating your area of specialization. It's only when you're cleared that you can teach. Otherwise, if you're caught taking any short cut you can end up in jail. Let's make the system transparent. Teaching is a noble profession, unqualified folks must be weeded out, whether they perform in the classroom or not.
If you want to sack your staff for any other reason, go ahead. Otherwise how do you label an untrained person a'teacher'. Will you attend a hospital to be seen by any person, then turn around to say,you 've seen a doctor?.Can anybody in coat around a courthouse be a lawyer?They all have to be licensed. And you respect them for that. Or are you afraid that your time of exploitation is just around the 'bend'?. Could'nt you have asked for a little more time, through your 'powerful'association, to prepare these not-yet trained,through the 'Distant LEARNING universities' as a better option? We can all help to build a better Ghana for the future. A qualified and licensed teacher,is an asset, and never a liability, to any society. GOD BLESS GHANA
Whatever you wish to call them, it's nominal. They get results. They teach the children, the children pass their BECE/WASSCE well well. What results do the so-called trained teachers churn out? Come again.