Amidst the mass failure that characterized the 2023 Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE), Africa Education Watch (EduWatch) is calling on the authorities to limit the number of times failed candidates can resit the exams.
This suggestion comes after the National Teaching Council revealed that some of the 6,000 candidates who failed the 2023 resit examination had taken the exam on nine previous occasions.
According to the Executive Director of EduWatch, Kofi Asare, the NTC should cap the number of times failed candidates can resit the examination to three.
Speaking in an interview with Accra-based Citi News, he said “the policy is a great one, and it is a means of separating the boys from the men for a want of a better word and ensuring that teachers who do not have the minimum competence to teach even though have their degrees are not allowed to teach.
“Moving forward, I think the National Teaching Council should put a cap on the number of times one can do a resit and I think that the maximum number of resit that should be permissible should be three,” he added.
