A retired educationist Robert Ajane has said, ‘he would never have thought at any moment that there was a need to have any licensure examination for teachers’.
The first-ever teacher licensure examination in Ghana was held from September 10 to 12, 2018 in colleges of education throughout the country.
Even though since its introduction in 2018, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has a different view on the said license examination.
In 2020, former President John Mahama in one of his platforms made a pronouncement that his government will abolish the licensure examination for teachers if he is elected as President in the 2020 polls.
“I will cancel licensure exams for teachers,” he said, explaining that what was needed was an improvement in the quality of teaching and examinations at the Colleges of Education. Former President Mahama stressed.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ajane who spoke One-on-One with Apexnewsgh-Tv, said he would never have thought at any moment that there was a need to have any licensure examination for teachers in the country.
“If it was at the critical time when I was actively teaching, I would never have thought at any moment that there was a need to have any licensure examination and my reasons are as follows; at that time, we have two types of teachers, the professional and non-professional and even if you had to add the third one the ‘pupil teacher’ who even just walked in and because there was no room. Some years back, there was a pupil-teacher training center where they will teach them and then asked them to go and teach.
“Now the professional teacher is the teacher who after the middle school or the SS went into a teacher training college and at the teacher training college, he or she was taught the academic and the methodology. How to teach and teaching practice and I think, that was the licensures for him or her.
“If you still have the degrees, you will still be called an unprofessional teacher”
“You haven’t trained the people and you are saying come and sit for a licensing exam for what syllabus? I found that rather unfortunate. But if this is the progression, I said let’s caution it.
However, Mr. Ajane blamed teachers for some of the predicaments they are going through.
They will say pupil-teacher and I said, do we have pupil police, pupil army men, pupil nurse, pupil what? We have helped to water down our teaching and even as we talk, there still pupil teachers there. What are those people recommending licensure examination saying about these people?
Meanwhile, he was worried with the number of qualify teachers currently sitting at home after completion without jobs.
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