Dear Ministry of Education GH, Some of the Universities you asked to mentor the Colleges of Education are seriously messing up the results of teacher trainees.
I don’t know if part of their mentorship is to teach the colleges how to mess up students’ results and frustrate them—but I doubt that’s the case.
So maybe it’s time you look at them closely and ask if they’re really doing the right thing.
Yes! It will shock you to know that majority of trainees preparing to graduate this year don’t even know their class. Oh yeah! Simply because their results have been tampered with—some missing, some wrong.
The very reason the student was in school is academics. And if the evidence of their academic performance can’t be proven, kept, or provided by the university mentoring them, then what’s the essence of the mentorship?
To shock you even more, some principals are asking these trainees to graduate without certificates—because the Universities are not ready. Oh yes! That’s how deep this issue goes.
Students who completed in 2023, affiliated with some particular university (I won’t mention names), are still waiting for their certificates. Oh yeah! They’ve paid for it. But they haven’t received it—because their results had issues.
I know of trainees who were to be First Class students but ended up being classified as Second Class—because the mentoring university decided to mess up their results.
Some even received transcripts showing First Class, but their certificates say Second Class. How do you explain that? And the story hasn’t changed. It’s still happening.
It’s about time, Dear Hon Haruna Iddrisu , that you revisit these mentoring universities and ask them why they’re doing this. Oh yeah!
And to the trainees about to graduate—insist your documents are ready before you leave. Otherwise, you’ll be left with God and yourself to figure it out.
Now on the issue of universities uploading Level 400 students’ data for the GTLE—Dear Education Minister, please relook at it!
One university is doing a great job, but some I know may end up uploading details of students with plenty of issues. How can they even upload data they don’t even have – I mean up to date data?
I know of graduates who read degree programmes but were uploaded onto the NTC portal as diploma students—because of the negligence of these same mentoring universities.
These student had to run helter-skelter, chasing the NTC office with a forwarded letter just to get these issue resolved. It wasn’t easy! And it can happen again.
Dear Ministry of Education, if messing up trainees’ results is what mentorship has become, then I strongly urge you to grant the colleges autonomy as early as possible—because trainees are silently crying.
I CAME IN PEACE!
Credit: Coleman Publications
Enock Akonnor is an experienced Ghanaian journalist and currently serves as the CEO and Managing Editor of www.leakyghana.com.
With a wealth of expertise built over many years in the media industry, he has earned a solid reputation as one of Ghana’s most sought-after journalists.
Contact:
📞 +233 541 921 562
✉️ enockakonnor2013@gmail.com
