Teacher licensure exams to be scrapped, integrated into final exams – Mahama

John Dramani Mahama, flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has reaffirmed his commitment to abolishing the teacher licensure exams and integrating same into the final year exams of teacher trainees.

Speaking at the launch of the NDC’s manifesto in Winneba, Mahama announced plans to revolutionize teacher welfare and accommodation.

Mahama promised to introduce the “Teacher Dabre” project, which involves providing accommodation for teachers in all new schools built by the government.

He noted that no new classroom block will be constructed without accompanying teacher accommodation.

Additionally, the NDC government is set to prioritize providing accommodation for teachers in existing schools that lack such facilities.

“We’ll abolish teacher licensure exams and integrate it into the licensing process into their final year exams. We’ll institute the teacher ‘dabre’ project and what this means is that any new school we are building must be accompanied by accommodation for teachers.”

“We are not going to build classroom blocks any more without teacher accommodation. Every new classroom block must have teacher accommodation, and we’ll also accelerate providing accommodation by the existing schools that do not have them, and that will be the teacher ‘dabre’, which means where a teacher will sleep programme.”