Private Schools to lay off over 400k teachers

The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GHNACOPS) will be forced to lay off over 400,000 untrained teachers in September 2019, if the government insists on the teacher licensing exams.

According to the council, most of their teachers are not trained teachers but individuals who completed University without training.

The government last year through the National Teachers Council (NTC) of the Ministry of Education has introduced compulsory teacher Licencing Exams. The move, according to the NTC, was part of the sector’s professional development and it applied to both trainee teachers graduating from public and private teacher training colleges.

The Council added it will enforce discipline and eliminate non-performing teachers from the system, in accordance with the new Teachers Licensing Policy under the Education Act 778 (2008).

The Private schools in a release said teachers’ licensure “would lay off over 400,000 untrained teachers in private schools in Ghana, coming September.”

 

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