Fresh graduates of colleges of education on Tuesday demonstrated in Kumasi over the teacher licensing exams expected to come off next month.

The students in their hundreds poured out into the principal streets of Kumasi clad in red and matched to the Ashanti regional coordinating council and the offices of the Ghana Education Service in the Ashanti region to deliver separate petitions.

They insisted the implementation of the licensure examinations for all teachers is a rushed policy a duplication of efforts and a measure which lacks any direction.

Per the tenets of the national teaching council, the graduate teachers have to pass the exams to be certified fit to be posted or obtain an employment to any school in the country.

The students are however angered even though the exams will be written in two weeks now, no course material has been provided them; detailing what they will be assessed on.

The graduates were also opposed to the licensing exams because they had already written 38 external examinations set by the University of Cape Coast which is mandated to assess students of Colleges of Education.

Some of the protesters insisted that the licensure examination is a calculated ploy of government to slash the number of teachers to be posted into schools this year.

The protestors were also angered that government is recruiting teachers for the senior high school double track system with no demand for licenses.

Leader of the concerned fresh college of education graduates Eric Tetteh threatened to lead a campaign against the current administration over the policy he contends is already being offered by the University Of Cape Coast.

“We see this as an attempt to sideline us, to increase unemployment and a way to make us pay for the cost of the restored allowances. If government does not take care, NTC with this policy can send him to opposition. This government should not be deceived because teachers are agents of change and we can do anything at all,” he cautioned.

Eric Tetteh also indicated that he and his executives have received threats on their lives but added that they will not be perturbed in registering their protests.