Teacher licensure exam and mass failure

The National Council for Parent-Teacher Associations of Ghana is calling for a probe into the recently released results of the teacher licensure exams.

The Council has expressed dissatisfaction with the results, alleging that something fishy might have gone wrong for the teachers to have performed so poorly.

The National Teaching Council recently released results indicating that a total of 6,451 teachers failed the 2023 Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination conducted in May 2023, while only 1,277 passed. This was after the teachers wrote the re-sit papers.

The Public Relations Officer of the National Council for PTA, Irene Sam, in an interview on the Point of View on Citi TV retorted, “What actually goes into this licensure exams? Do they have a course material that they study? Teachers go through basic schools, Junior High Schools (JHS), Senior High Schools and end up in the training colleges. And they are being asked to write the licensure exams, we don’t see any form of mass failure like this.