Colleges of Education Align with Public Universities | Education

Colleges of Education (CoE) have been converted to university colleges of education and aligned with public universities to offer a four-year Bachelor of Education degree for the contributions of September and September. October

"As of October 2018, all new teachers will be required to study the Bachelor of Education degrees offered by the CoE initially in affiliation with the University of Cape Town. Coast

"After a transition period of one year, the program will be anchored in four other public universities. "Mr. Akwasi Addae-Boahene, Technical Advisor, Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL), told Koforidua in the East Region

. University of Education Winneba; University of Ghana, Legon; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi; and the University of Development Studies, Tamale

M. Addae-Boahene who went to a section of school principals, vice-principals, tutors, students (mentees) and other stakeholders, including; The traditional leaders of the T-TEL Challenge Fund pointed out that the overall goal was to have a university degree.

He said that the universities had designed the new bachelor's degrees in education in accordance with the National Teachers' Standards (NTS). ) "National Framework of the Teacher Training Program (NTECF) and submitted to the National Commission for Accreditation for Certification.

"Aligning the new curriculum with these standards will ensure that we train the teachers Ghana needs to provide a world-clbad education system. Mr. Addae-Boahene said:

He explained that the new program would ensure that the application in teacher training would attract a larger group of young men and women aspiring to receive training and enter the education system. profession with a Bachelor of Education. said that this would also improve the quality of teachers by ensuring that trainee teachers benefit from high quality, rigorous and practice-based training. The holistic program would also alleviate the current situation of disrupted work force, where current teachers left the clbadroom for part of the week for lectures such as According to him, M. Addae-Boahene explained that T-TEL, under multiple levels of support, has launched the Challenge Fund. He said that about 2.5 million GHC were disbursed in 31 colleges across the country to implement innovative projects that would improve the practical skills of trainee teachers

. ] T-TEL's technical advisor stated that as a result of the Incentive Fund, the Centers of Excellence had experienced significant and positive changes as they had stimulated innovation in teacher training. teacher professional development, college management, as well as gender and inclusion and improved partnership with broad-based stakeholders.

"More importantly, the Challenge Fund has strengthened the capacity and capacity of the EC in preparation for the rollout of the new Bachelor of Education program.

" And this is not the end, far from it , T-TEL will be there at every step, as a program of the Government of Ghana to support universities and colleges in the coming years, "said Mr. Addae-Boahene.