1st Degree Minimum Qualification For Teaching At Basic Schools –Minister

1^st Degree Is Minimum Qualification for teaching at basic schools, and if you do not have it, then you had better think of shipping out.

When these words come from Minister for Education, then you have no option than to take it serious.

There came from Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister for Education in Ghana while admonishing those in service or desiring to join to upscale.

The minister expressed government’s concern about the early years of child education in the country given their critical nature to her total development, saying these justifies government embarking on teacher training reforms.

In a presentation, “ Education and Teacher Reforms” to the parliament in Accra, he said: “We have in our focus on teacher reforms taken the necessary steps to upgrade all our Colleges of Education to university colleges to award Bachelor of Education (B.Ed), degrees, following a review of the teacher education curriculum into standards based curriculum,”

The minister said the Ministry of Education was working in collaboration and support of the Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) to upgrade capacity and improve the quality of teacher education.

He added the, implementation of the new teacher education curriculum began in October 2018, with each College of Education affiliated to one of the public universities in the country, Ghanaweb reports.

According to him, the Ministry of Education was working in collaboration and support of the Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) to upgrade capacity and improve the quality of teacher education to position teachers to be able to respond to current and future challenges in education.

T-TEL is a Government of Ghana programme funded by DFID. T-TEL is a six-year programme, which aims at ensuring Ghana’s teaching graduates are equipped to deliver high-quality, inspirational teaching and learning in schools.

Prempehalso announced the setting up, since 2018, the National Teaching Council, which is charged with the responsibility for setting professional standards, registering, and licensing teachers.

According to him, the Government was introducing a Professional Teacher Allowance of GH¢1,200.00 per year for professional teachers and GH¢600.00 for non-professional teachers.

“This will enable teachers to invest in improving and upgrading their skills and keeping abreast with modern trends to assist improving learning outcomes,” the Minister said.

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: With this development in Ghana, Nigeria’s neighbour of many other similarities, is there a possibility that the Federal Government of Nigeria would also shortly make 1^st degree minimum qualifications to teach in public school?

Is indeed the possession of 1^st degree that critical for teaching?

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