The National Teaching Council (NTC) has conducted the 2023 Teacher Licensure Examination, and about 9,556 candidates failed it.
This represents 52.6% of the 20,181 applicants who took the required examinations.
In a statement, NTC said that 10,625 teachers, or 52.6% of the total, also passed the tests.
The Council announced that the exam.ntc.gov.GH website will host the results when they become available on Thursday, December 21, 2023.
“All candidates can check their results from the NTC online portal at exam.ntc.gov.gh by using either their pins given during registration or their examination index numbers using their phone numbers. Candidates are advised to print their provisional certificates after checking results,” the statement in parts.
Exam failure rates in 2023 are significantly higher than in 2022, which exacerbates the issues that are brought up every year.
1,277 of the 7,728 aspiring teachers who retook the exam—which focused mostly on literacy and numeracy—passed.
This number corresponds to 16.5% of the applicants who retook the exam in order to obtain a teaching license.
Meanwhile, the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released the WASSCE results; however, it would be dishonest for anyone to compare those results to those that were released prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to Dr. Clement Abass Apaak, Member of Parliament for Builsa South and Deputy Ranking Member of the Education Committee.
He said that following its exit from the regional bloc, Ghana created a customized examination format in response to the virus outbreak.
He pointed out that since this has been the situation since 2020, it would be improper for anyone to compare these findings to those from prior to the COVID-19 outbreak.
“Consequently, it is dishonest on the part of anyone to compare results of Ghanaian students who wrote the regional level WASSCE before 2020, to those who wrote the customised Ghana WASSCE or GHASSCE, from 2020 to the present. At best, we can only compare the results of WASSCE [GHASSCE] 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, as WAEC has rightly done in its press release announcing the 2023 result,” Dr. Clement Apaak explained in a tweet on his X (formerly Twitter) page.
