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Professor Damian Kofi Mereku, former Dean of Science Education, University of Education Winneba has appealed to the Ministry of Education to institute measures to attract top candidates to the Colleges of Education. He was addressing the sixth Congregation of the Peki College of Education and sixtieth anniversary launch of the College under the theme, �sixty years of teacher education in Ghana: successes, challenges and the way forward.� Professor Mereku said a study by Ossei-Anto Fletcher, Annang-Nunoo and Korankye (2013) �identified weak qualifications of entrants to colleges of education as one of the major factors of prospective teachers� poor achievement in the end of training assessment, as well as, their overall preparedness to teach during their internship.� He said a study conducted on behalf of the Professional Board of the Institute of Education, University of Cape Coast showed that out of 99 students whose records were sampled �only 30 percent had better grades than D7 in integrated science and or mathematics.� Professor Mereku said most Senior High School graduates resorted to the Colleges of Education after failing to gain admission to university, polytechnic or nursing training colleges in that order.