Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has announced that teachers who graduate from all 46 colleges of education this year will be awarded degree certificates instead of diploma certificates.
He explained that the move is to enhance the quality of teachers in the country and various universities are to assist in developing the capacities of teachers in colleges of education
Addressing journalists at the Meet the Press in Accra, Dr. Opoku-Prempeh said All teachers going to colleges of education would graduate with a university degree and not a diploma starting this year.
He added that next year, the other universities will also take on part of their colleges saying: “It is also to help the universities develop the capacity of teachers within the colleges of education.
The education minister said to teach in a university now, one required a PhD, but colleges of education lecturers don’t need a PhD but are being given time to improve themselves.
