The National Teaching Council (NTC) of Ghana has cautioned all Public and Private Teachers in Ghana who did not have the Approved NTC License or are yet to get it, to do so. This was revealed in the Daily Graphic.
This means that all teachers in public and private schools have between now and December 31, 2022 to possess a license before they can teach in any school in the country.
The failure to have a license will result in prosecution of the unlicensed teacher and owner of the school employing such a person.
“Now, we are moving into the licensing enforcement stage and from January 2023, anybody who does not have the authorisation (license) to teach, the NTC will deal with that person because the law is clear; you can be prosecuted for not owning a license and teaching,” the Registrar of the NTC, Dr Christian Addai-Poku, told the Daily Graphic in Accra.
Among other things, he said Section 79 of the Education Regulatory Bodies Act, 2020 (Act 1023) stated that, “A person shall not knowingly or negligently employ a person as a teacher in an institution unless the teacher is registered under this Act.
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A person who contravenes this commits an offence and is liable to summary conviction to a fine not less than 500 penalty units and not more than 1000 penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of not less than six months and not more than one year.”
Dr Addai-Poku said the NTC would next year go strictly according to what was contained in the Education Regulatory Bodies Act, adding that once a person was in the classrooms without a license and was not applying for it, the NTC would go after them from January.
Under the exercise, he said the council would send its inspectors to public and private schools to go and check.
“We would be sending inspectors to schools to go and check. So we move to the school, take the data of the teachers to find out whether everybody is licensed.
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Source :: Daily Graphic
