The 8,000 teachers who failed the 2023 Teacher Licensure Exams have been offered the opportunity to retake the exams in March of this year.
Out of nearly 20,000 teachers who took the tests, 8,000 did not reach the required standard.
Dr. Christian Addae Poku, Registrar of the National Teaching Council, states that the Council is committed to placing only qualified teachers in schools.
“People have been talking about the fact that we failed people because there is no vacancy for the Ministry of Education or the Ghana Education Service to employ them, but for us at the National Teaching Council, we don’t regulate and license only public school teachers. So, we expect that when people go through the system and they get licensed, some of them may get absorbed by the Ministry of Education or the Ghana Education Service.”
Out of the 20,181 teachers who took the 2023 Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE) 2&3, 9,556—or more than 30%—did not pass the exam.