The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu on Friday paid a visit to the Accra Senior High School examination centre for the ongoing teacher licensure examination.
A total of 37,000 candidates are taking the licensure examination out of which 5000 candidates were rewriting while 32,000 were first time candidates.
Mr Iddrisu encouraged the candidates to excel and assured first timers of an opportunity to rewrite if they fail.
He reiterated his directive to the National Teaching Council to ensure an opportunity was given to the previous cohort of students who failed the examination to rewrite before the August 30deadline.
This explained was to enable government take pragmatic measures to integrate teacher licensure exams into the final exams of the next cohort who would be graduating from the teacher training programs.
“We are honouring the manifesto pledge, albeit, we will accept inputs but for us, all this should not compromise the quality of teaches that we have .We are committed to improving the quality of teachers,” he stressed.
The minister underscored the need to strengthen the professional capacity of teachers through continuous assessment.
He noted that teachers must undergo professional development to enable them to impact their students positively.
“when teachers teach, learners learn,” he emphasised.