NTC Outlines Road Map for GTLE Payment Exemptions which ends 2024

The National Teaching Council (NTC) has outlined its road map for the GTLE Exemptions payments, which ends in 2024 for all categories of educators in GES and TVET.

The National Teaching Council outlined three key details that you need to know about Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination Exemption.

In a blog post by the NTC sighted by Ghana Education News, it states that the exemption from paying for the licence applies to staff of the Ghana Education Service and the TVET who meet requirement [a] and any other one as outlined

a. The GTLE Examination payment exemption covers only staff of the GES and TVET.

b. All teachers who were employed before 31st December 2008 and are able to secure professional teaching certificates from recognized institutions on or before 2024.

c. All first-degree and diploma certificate holders without a certificate in education who are employed but acquire their professional certificate on or before 31st December 2024. Persons in this category should have been practising as unqualified teachers before 2018.

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What the above means is that, if those who qualify for exemption do not meet the qualification requirements, they will lose the immunity of being exempted from paying.

In a related development, 230 out of 256 teachers who failed the 2021 Teacher Promotional Examination and sued the GES for answers have been declared successful after the remarking of their scripts. Only 26 of the number failed the exam.

The GES had earlier scheduled the cancelled December 2022 examination for February 2023 and is yet to announce the exact examination date for teachers preparing to take the examination.