According to the Registrar of the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE), Dr. Christian Addai-Poku, out of the 7,728 prospective teachers who sat for the licensure examination in May, 2023, just a handful of 1,277 passed.

• 7,728 prospective teachers who sat for the licensure examination in May, 2023 failed.
• some candidates had unreadable handwriting and unintelligible composition
• common words were spelt wrong by teacher candidates

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When I switched on my television set that evening, I least expected to be hit by  that frightening news about our education system in the country. 

The news of more than 80% of prospective teachers failing their Teacher licensure examination was nerve-racking, to say the least.

According to the Registrar of the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE), Dr. Christian Addai-Poku, out of the 7,728 prospective teachers who sat for the licensure examination in May, 2023, just a handful of 1,277 passed. 

In other words, out of the 7,000+ teachers trained in a period of 4 years, only 16.5% could write examinations on basic English language skills and Mathematics or Numeracy skills.

Education is the bedrock of any nation. The recent shocking performance of prospective teachers has reignited the debate on the debilitating effects of examination malpractice at our BECE and WASSCE examinations on our country’s human capital. *Examination malpractice is the climate change* of the Ghana education system.

Excerpts of papers by candidates

Ghanaians responded to the sad news with hung heads rather than hi fives. 

Although examinations are typically set to trip the candidate up, most of the questions would-be  teachers answered were no-brainer. 

Before we show the scripts, let’s state categorically that like any examination, the examiners made some silly mistakes by marking one or more correct answers wrong. This is not uncommon in education and examinations. 

Take a gander at excerpts of candidates worksheet and you’d be convinced that Ghana’s education is a tempest in a teapot.

According to Albert Einstein,”if you cannot explain it simple enough, then you don’t understand it”. For these teachers students, they seem to have no idea on how to write a simple composition or work out basic arithmetic or algebra. 

If you’re not worried that the person who’ll potentially be teaching you kid from kindergarten to the Senior High School has problem spelling correctly simple words let alone putting words together, then nothing will bother you in your life. 

Most candidates have poor comprehension skills, poor composition skills and shockingly terrible handwriting not to talk of their inability to spell basic words.

(1) Candidates with unreadable handwriting and unintelligible composition

Aside the esoteric handwriting that immediately strikes you in the face, one can hardly understand a single statement in this write-up.

(2) Common words spelt wrong by teacher candidates

It will amaze you to realize that teacher candidates couldn’t spell words among others such as

Minister

Office

fellow

middle

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