No graduate teacher employed in the last 5 years – Napo

Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has revealed that for the past five years not a single graduate teacher has been employed to teach in any of the schools across the country.

According to him, on the other hand, Teachers with Diploma Certificates have always had automatic appointments, a situation he described as wrong and unacceptable, adding that all teachers must be given a basic education qualification so that the country employs as much of teachers that it can.

Speaking on Peace FM Monday, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh who’s also the Member of Parliament for Manyhia South further disclosed that as part of the NPP administration’s programme of empowering the teacher to give off his or her best, the government will soon upgrade all Colleges of Education into Degree awarding Universities.

“Currently when a student does a Diploma Course he or she spends 3 years and does a top up course of 2 years spending 5 years to become a full degree teacher. But government says no, it will upgrade Colleges of Education to Universities Colleges of Education to ensure that all the Colleges are attached directly to the University as University Colleges. You’ll start and end with a degree within 4 years.