The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Christian International High School, Prof Emeritus Stephen Adei says teachers do not have a right to demand for study material to aid them in adequately preparing for licensure exams.

According to him, although he has not seen the exam questions, most of the test materials are on topics that should be at the finger tips of professional teachers.

“I wish I had seen the examination because of what the NTC is saying, but basically for a teacher to be told that somebody should be given a syllabus on numeracy, just writing basic essay and you are a trained teacher and we are asking you about basic psychology, classroom management and the rest, and you say somebody should give you some material, you are indicting yourself," he argued.

He stressed that the request by the teachers suggests that “ they are not qualified to be in the classroom."

Speaking on Upfront on JoyNews, he explained that the teacher's concerns could be legitimate if they were tested in Artificial Intelligence and some other topics outside their education.

His comments come on the back of concerns by some teachers who failed the National Teacher Council's licensure exams that they were not provided with some reference material.

When the host, Isaac Kofi Agyei asked if there was a major factor affecting these teachers since data shows that most of the teachers who failed were from rural areas, the outspoken Professor said the exam was centered on the training they had received in the colleges of education, and so regardless of where they are, they should be able to take the paper.

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“We are not talking about being tested on current affairs or even listening to Stephen Adei’s interview on Joy FM.

“We are talking about basic numeracy, basic literacy and you don’t need to be in Accra,” he said.

He justified his point with reference to a teacher who was teaching his class to misspell ‘quality’ as 'kwality' but for the intervention of an education officer.

He added that instead of the teacher admitting his mistake, he told the pupils “they have just told me that they have changed the spelling of quality in Accra.”

“I think that those people must sit up because what they are asking them to do is not quantum physics,” he added.