NTC reacts to claim to ‘change’ 2023 GTLE results over mass failure
The National Teaching Council (NTC) has denied allegations indicating it has made changes to the 2023 provisional Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE) results after the majority of teachers who sat for the examination failed.
NTC’s comes after a viral publication circulating on various social media platforms said management of the Teaching Council is set to change the teacher licensure examination results of candidates who failed the GTLE to pass
The Council in a statement shared with Thisterm.com said published 2023/2024 GTLE results remain valid and any announcements suggesting alterations to the results are false, misleading, and should be treated as fraudulent.
The National Teaching Council has not made any changes to the examination results. The published results remain valid and any announcements suggesting alterations to the results are false, misleading, and should be treated as fraudulent.
Candidates are advised to verify information only through the official NTC communication channels, including our official website and authorized social media accounts. Email: info@ntc.gov.gh,” the Council said in the statement.
The management of the Ghana National Teaching Council (NTC) noted it is actively investigating the source of this fraudulent announcement and appropriate legal action will be taken against those responsible.
In a related development, NTC has given about 8,000 student teachers who sat for the 2023 edition of the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination but failed the opportunity to retake the GTLE in March of this academic year.
The upcoming resit comes after 8,000 out of the over 20,000 candidates who sat for the 2023 edition of the National Teacher Licensure examination did not meet the required threshold to pass the test for a professional teaching license.
“People have been talking about the fact that we failed people because there is no vacancy for the Ministry of Education or the Ghana Education Service to employ them, but for us at the National Teaching Council, we don’t regulate and license only public school teachers.
So, we expect that when people go through the system and they get licensed, some of them may get absorbed by the Ministry of Education or the Ghana Education Service,” Registrar of the NTC, Dr Christian Addai Poku told the media.
The NTC Registrar citing benefits of the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination also known as GTLE said the management of the National Council is committed to ensuring that only qualified teachers are placed in classrooms.