A teacher group calling itself Aggrieved Teachers Alliance after the National Teaching Council (NTC) refused to licensed thousands of in-service teachers, has submitted a petition to the Ministry of Education (MoE) for an investigation.
The Alliance in its petition to the Minister for Education and copied EducationWeb said prospective teachers who were employed on or before 2018 have been denied the national teachers license on no justifiable grounds.
According to them, NTC before the introduction of the teacher licensure exams communicated to them they would be licensed without taking the licensure test but not even a single teacher in that category has been issued a license.
It said despite a GHC100 deduction from their salary in 2020 and 2021 as fees for the license, the National Teaching Council still has not issued them the license required to practise as a teacher in the country
“If the Council knew it would not license teachers who had not obtained professional certificates before 2018, on what grounds did it accept the monies of such teachers as fees for the licence?” the Aggrieved Teachers Alliance quizzed.
The aggrieved teachers say they are of the view the decision by the National Council is a calculated attempt to disenfranchise the qualified but unlicensed in-service teachers who obtained their professional certificates after 2018.
“Why are they denying us the licence now on grounds of professional certificates and when they were obtained? Are certificates obtained after 2018 inferior and needs authentication before they are proven worth qualifying a teacher?”
The Teachers Alliance in their petition indicated the action of the Council has affected their focus, commitment and sacrifice to their work. “Our members cannot do their work now with the clarity of mind and joy they ought to,” it noted.
“If it is left unattended to, we may not be able to take responsibility for what these teachers will do, since several of us are already suffering various undue and inhumane treatments from the GES as regards poor conditions of service.
We would like to be issued with our licences exactly the same way our colleague in-service teachers before 2018 were licensed because we are all professionals irrespective of the date the certificate was obtained,” the teachers urged.
To the Education Minister, Dr Audtwum, they said “we would also appreciate if you could sound a wake-up call for GES to make its systems flexible and accessible for teachers to be granted all that is due them. We hope to count on you.”
SOURCE: EDUCATIONWEB
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