{"id":1271147,"date":"2022-12-29T08:23:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/theres-no-reintroduction-of-quota-system-gtec-boss-dismisses-reports\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:23:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:23:29","slug":"theres-no-reintroduction-of-quota-system-gtec-boss-dismisses-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/theres-no-reintroduction-of-quota-system-gtec-boss-dismisses-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no reintroduction of quota system &#8211; GTEC boss dismisses reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"344\"  alt=\"\" title=\"GTEC presser\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GTEC-presser.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"344\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GTEC-presser.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"GTEC presser\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Professor Mohammed Salifu, has denied reports there is going to be a reintroduction of a quota system of admission for colleges of education in Ghana from the 2022\/2023 academic year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said the statement issued on the total number of admissions permissible per college of education was just a usual agreement between the institutions and GTEC reached every year based on capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just simply have to match the numbers with the existing facilities even as we invest in the infrastructure,\u201d Prof Salifu explained on <strong>TV3<\/strong>\u2018s <em>Midday Live <\/em>on Wednesday, December 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHostel projects are all over the colleges now and there is work ongoing about the infrastructure thing and it is not different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past, we agreed with the colleges on what numbers to admit, it is just that this time we needed to be a lot more specific on that because we have had occasion where you give leverage to the principals and then one or two principals may take students more than what is required and then the classrooms become congested. That is one dimension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other dimension is also is that our attention has been brought to the number of teachers that we are producing,\u201d he added, further explaining that the three-year programme that the colleges are running is exactly the same thing that some of the universities that are involved in teacher education are also running.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we are asked to bring more and more of them and who feel entitled to be posted and create spaces in the classroom for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, insists there is no reintroduction as a result of inability to pay allowances as being peddled around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year before [the colleges] do the admissions, we agree on what numbers that they are supposed to admit [and] that is based on the capacity of the colleges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur main concern is whether there will be quality delivery teaching and learning taking place in relation to the numbers and this year the dimension is that we have to look at the number of teachers that are being produced with the BSc programme, so GTEC comes to get more closely involved in that because we need to be sure that no college will go beyond the numbers that have been agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it\u2019s as simple as that. We are not going back to some quota system which was implemented by whatever party. I don\u2019t know where this reintroduction is coming from,\u201d Prof Salifu told host Martin Asiedu-Dartey, adding that there is no such system\u201despecially not because there is no money to pay teachers trainee allowance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that is where the reintroduction narrative is coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwame_amoh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @kwame_amoh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Professor Mohammed Salifu, has denied reports there is going to be a reintroduction of a quota system of admission for colleges of education in Ghana from the 2022\/2023 academic year. He said the statement issued on the total number of admissions permissible per college of education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}