The National Teaching Council (NTC) has released the results of the maiden teacher licensure examination.
Out of the 28,757 teachers who wrote the examination, 21,297, representing 74 per cent, passed, while 7,472 failed.
The results of 26 candidates have also been withheld pending the completion of Investigations into their alleged involvement to examination malpractice, while 12 have had their entire results cancelled.
The results have been posted on the council’s online portal for candidates to access them from Thursday, February 28.
Details of results
Giving details of the results in an interview in Accra on Wednesday, the Executive secretary of the NTC, Dr Mrs Evelyn Owusu Oduro, asked all those who sat for the examination to check their results from the NTC online portal at www.exams.ntc.gov.gh, using their personal identification numbers (PINs) and the serial numbers used during the registration for the examination.
“Candidates can also obtain their results at the colleges of education where they sat for the examination,” she directed.
She said even though there were failures, the outcome of the examination was encouraging, particularly co when it was the maiden edition.
Statistics
Giving statistics of the results, Dr Ms Oduro said out of the 13,110 females who sat for the examination, 3,938 failed while out of the 15,647 males who wrote the exams, 3,532 failed.
She explained that those who failed would be required to join the next batch to write the examination in March this year.
She said the licensure examination had come to stay and that these without the licence would not be allowed to enter classrooms to teach, be it in public or private schools.
Read the full story in Thursday’s edition of the Daily Graphic newspaper
