Part II: Will This Be The Normal Trend Of NTC’s Licensure Exams?

The Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE) has come to stay for sure. While it met stiff oppositions from some teacher unions when its implementation started making rounds, it has now gained grounds.

The second registration of Ghana Teacher Licensure exams in 2020 has ended but most graduates who pursued various forms of “education related” courses in the Universities were not able to register. The National Teaching Council is mandated by the Education Act 2008 (Act 778), Section 9 to improve the professional standing and status of teachers and to license and register teachers in Ghana.

With this constitutional backing, the NTC has decided that teachers must write exams (Essential Skills, Numeracy and Literacy) before teachers with educational backgrounds would be recognised as professionals after they pass successfully.

To write this exams, one has to purchase a Gh¢220.00 voucher from GCB Bank or other avenues to have access to a unique serial number/PIN code for registration. But upon observations on a number of social media platforms, most people after buying their voucher form could not go through with their registration because their respective institutions could not furnish NTC with the index numbers of their past students on time. Even though, there could be a possibility of those students failing in one or two courses, many graduates have somewhat wasted the said amount (Gh¢220.00). And shockingly, the same voucher cannot be used for the next registration which would be in 2021. The question then comes in that; can’t NTC take these particulars of graduates ahead of time? Way before the registration and exams date draw closer? NTC released various publications of how graduates can send their original certificates to their offices in Accra for a successful registration but I wonder how many of these graduates who stay very far away from Ghana’s capital had done this.

Would this be the normal trend of frustrations that NTC would allow graduates to go through annually?

The future will hold answers to these questions.