National Association of Graduate Teachers [NAGRAT] has kicked against the introduction of a licensing examination for graduates of Colleges of Education.
President of NAGRAT, Christian Addae-Opoku said it will not make sense that the Ghana Education Service will mandate the schools to produce professional and after the graduation of the trainee teachers, make them write another exam before they are licensed to work.
Public Relations Officer of GES, Rev. Jonathan Betteh in a radio interview on Tuesday, August 15, said the Service has put in place a licensing mechanism which will mandate all teacher trainee graduates from the public and private institution to write an exam before they can be licensed as professionals.
According to him, preparations are far advanced for the exams to take place in September and that whoever fails cannot hold himself/herself up as a professional teacher.
“Teachers who fail the exams will not be allowed to teach at a certain level. To be seen as a professional, you will have to pass the licensing exams."
But Mr Addae-Opoku said the move by the GES will be a waste of time and resource, he asked the Ghana Education Service to rather incorporate the said licensing system into the curriculum of the institutions so that by the time the students are out of school they will be already licensed.
Source: primenewsghana.com
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Oh NAGRAT! Check with other professionals. Architects, nurses, surveyors, accountants all write these exams.What is wrong with teachers writing something similar. I thought you were going to ask for the syllabus instead of kicking against it. Ask your colleagues who go outside to teach if they are not subjected to this. Please come again
I feel very sad for the NAGRAT President. He should not be the one to be talking like that. To practice any profession all over the world, there is a licensure exams to be completed and certified as such otherwise you can't practice. It is only in Education in Ghana where some teachers can kick against this. You can't teach without QTS in UK even if you got distinction in the academic qualification. Nurses, Lawyers, Pharmacists, Surveyors, Doctors, etc all write professional exams before they can practise. So Mr. President please read widely and stop this unecessary agitation and let our profession move forward. Be a Professional with a licence to practice your profession Massa.
all "PROPER PROFESSIONALS" such as Accountants, Architects, Bankers, Doctors, Engineers, etc etc all have post-certification exams, why not teachers?????? I am disappointed with NAGRAT> It seems they do not want to revise any knowledge past first degrees. Their NOTES keep falling off, no revisions, etc etc.NAGRAT does not want to write exams? No doubt examination questions leak under their watch. Addai-Pou, Carbonno, etc please do you know that for Doctor to be a surgeon, years after studies, he must write exams??