A professor in the political science department of the University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampo has backed the proposal to scrap the teacher licensure exams.
Former president John Mahama over the weekend vowed to scrap the teacher’s licensure examination if voted into power in the 2024 elections, arguing that the concept was not well thought through and raises some concerns.
Speaking at a campaign in the Bono Region, the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) said he could not fathom why after several examinations, students of colleges of education are expected to take another test before they are permitted to practice.
Some experts have since kicked against the proposal.
Reacting to the development on Facebook on Tuesday (21 November), Gyampo called for a review of the curriculum and training college exams for the purposes of addressing their identified deficiencies.
“I respectfully disagree with my good friend Franklyn Cudjoe of IMANI, and support the proposal to cancel the Teacher Licensure Exams,” Gyampo wrote on Facebook.
“Clearly, the type of education that train teachers is faulty and must be fixed. But this can be internally done. The way to go is not to introduce another layer of exam. On the contrary we must review the curriculum and training college exams for the purposes of addressing their identified deficiencies.
“We are fond of creating new structures to deal with old problems that can be dealt with, by overhauled existing structures. Even when we have the opportunity to overhaul existing structures to make them work, we would want to easily develop “useless new solutions” that do not solve problems.
“The solution to the problems we face as a country are known. We need not, for very crude and sometimes corrupt reasons, create new “useless solutions” when we haven’t interrogated and fully made use of the existing structures that have better potency to deal with our challenges,” he added.
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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