Gov’t to conduct entrance exams for Colleges of Education from 2023

Government says there will be entrance exams for prospective candidates seeking admission to Colleges of Education from 2023.

Even the licensure exams data shows that, trained teachers who have written BECE, WASSCE and undergone scrutiny at UCC and UEW cannot write a single sentence.

So there is a call that from next year, entrance exams in Mathematica and English should be conducted so that, we get the best to enter our Colleges of Education”, he said.

The teacher licensure examination was introduced in 2018 to give teachers the requisite certification to practice in Ghana, but became a subject of controversy in the country.

Some have suggested that instead of the conduct of the examination, the curriculum should be reviewed to make licensure a part of the course programme.

The government had insisted that there was nothing wrong with the process, but the opposition National Democratic Congress said the mode of delivery of the exams was not the best.

Yaw Osei Adutwum, said his outfit is adopting new strategies aimed at reducing the failure rate recorded in the teacher licensure exams