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Untrained Teachers To be Registered, Trained & Licensed in Ghana

Untrained Teachers To be Registered, Trained & Licensed in Ghana

Untrained teachers in Ghana are to be trained and License to meet the standard in order to fit into the current educational structure. As a result, the Management of the Ghana Education Service intend to equip and license all untrained teachers in Ghana as means of regularizing the education sector.

In a letter cited online, indicates that all non-professional  teachers are expected to make available their particulars using the link provided below.

The full letter signed by Stephen Kwaku Owusu, the Deputy Director-General (MS) reads;

“The Management of the Ghana Education Service extends its compliments.”

“As part of measures to support the National Teaching Council to deliver on a critical part of its mandate to register and license all teachers in Basic and Senior High Schools as provided in the Section 67(1) of the Education Regulatory Bodies Act (2020), Act 1023, the Council intends to deploy a special dispensation to register and license all Non-Professional Teachers in the country.”

“The Teachers are therefore required to register and undergo a prescribed Training that will lead to permanent Registration and Issuance of the appropriate License to practice.”

“For the sake of this, the Non-Professional Teachers are categorized as follows:

a) Bachelor’s Degree Holders

b) Non-Bachelor’s Degree Holders (HND, Diploma, WASSCE, SSCE, O’/A’ Level, NAPTEX, MSLC, etc.).”

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“The arrangement for their training shall take the following form:

  1. “All Degree Holders shall enroll in a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PDGE) Progmmme in an accredited Teacher Education University and will be issued a Teachers’ Registration and License upon successfully completing the Programme. This Fast-track Programme may last sixteen (16) weeks and shall be exclusively for those who were teachers before 30th September, 2018.
  1. “AII other Categories of Untrained Teachers are required to attend a one (1) week of training (Booth Camp) in designated institutions and be registered upon successful completion of the training. This shall be exclusively for those who were teachers before 30th September, 2018.”
  1. “Participants in these two Programmes will not be required to write the Licensure Examination, as this forms part of the transitional arrangements for those who were  employed by the Ghana Education Service before the introduction of the Licensure Examination in 2018.”

“Detailed arrangements. including fees, shall be communicated in due course.

To efficiently plan the one-week training, all Non-Professional Teachers are required to use any of the links below to provide their particulars;

  • https://bit.ly/3zRea0S
  • https://forms.gle/4skxE9DKdkZqr3oM6

“Consequently, Regional Directors are kindly requested to bring the above information to all Non- Professional Teachers and entreat them to comply with the above directive.”

Untrained Teachers To be Registered
Untrained Teachers To be Registered, Trained and Licensed

Untrained Teachers To be Registered

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Casper

Casper works at Ghana Education Service as an ICT teacher. He graduated with a First Class Honor at University of Education, Winneba - Kumasi Campus now AAMUSTED. He is also a Certified Cisco Networking Engineer and passionate about students learning.

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