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Claim: Multiple posts from Alhassan Abdul Ganiu, Osonoba Quophy, Slow Fast, Win Ghana, and Voice of NPP circulating on social media since around September 1–3, 2026, claim that the National Teaching Council (NTC) has increased registration fees for the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE).
Verdict: FALSE. The NTC Board Chairperson, Emmanuel Kwame Alorvi, and the NTC Public Affairs Unit have officially denied the claim, stating in a statement on September 3, 2026, that the fee remains GH¢500 (GH¢450 for registration plus GH¢50 for indexing). DUBAWA independently intercepted receipts confirming the NTC’s payment amounts. No official document supports a fee increase for fresh or re-sit candidates.
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The Ghana Teacher Licensure Exams (GTLE) is a statutory requirement under the Education Regulatory Bodies Act, 2020 (Act 1023) for anyone seeking a professional teaching licence in Ghana. The exams are held twice yearly for newly qualified teachers and for candidates re-sitting failed papers.
The 2026 GTLE 2 registration deadline was August 21, 2026, with the exam scheduled for September 14–16, 2026.
Ahead of the exam came multiple claims suggesting the cost of the licensure exams had been increased
The latest posts came from Alhassan Abdul Ganiu, Osonoba Quophy, Slow Fast, Win Ghana, and Voice of NPP. The claim that the National Teaching Council (NTC) has increased registration fees for the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE) on these accounts generated over 100 reactions.
Left uncorrected, the claim risks discouraging eligible candidates from registering, fuelling distrust in a legitimate regulatory body, or exposing candidates to scammers exploiting the confusion to charge inflated, unofficial fees.
Verification
Shortly after the claims were made, several denials followed. The GTLE issued a statement calling the allegations false and stating that licensure fees had been increased.
Screenshot of the statement from NTC on Facebook
2. Independent comparison of NTC’s own registration notices, 2023–2026
Rather than rely on official denials alone, this fact-check pulled the registration adverts NTC published for each sitting directly from its own domain (ntc.gov.gh and its exams.ntc.gov.gh archive), to compare what candidates were actually charged, sitting by sitting:
2023 GTLE 1 and GTLE 3: Fresh candidates, GH¢450 for three papers; indexing GH¢50; re-sit fees GH¢150 (one paper), GH¢210 (two papers), GH¢385 (three papers).
2024 GTLE 1 and GTLE 3: Identical figures — GH¢450 fresh candidate fee, GH¢50 indexing, re-sit tiers unchanged at GH¢150/GH¢210/GH¢385.
2025 GTLE 1: Same structure again — GH¢450 plus GH¢50 indexing, re-sit tiers unchanged.
2026 GTLE 1 (Feb–Mar 2026) and GTLE 2 (Aug–Sept 2026): Same figures throughout — GH¢450 fresh candidate fee, GH¢50 indexing, re-sit tiers GH¢150/GH¢210/GH¢385.
Across seven registration cycles spanning 2023 to September 2026, the fee schedule published by NTC itself did not change at any point. This is a document-to-document comparison of NTC’s own contemporaneous registration notices, not a comparison of the Council’s later statements about its fees, and it independently rules out a price increase across the period the claims reference.
3. First-hand evidence: a teacher’s actual payment receipts, August 2026
Beyond NTC’s published notices, this fact-check obtained two payment receipts from a teacher who registered for the current (2026 GTLE 2) cycle, sent minutes apart via Prudential Bank’s confirmation service.
The first confirms a GH¢50.00 payment for “Indexing Fees,” dated on or around August 2, 2026.
Payment confirmation of 50 cedis indexing fees
The second, timestamped 8:57 AM, confirms a GH¢450.00 payment for “Teacher Licensure Exam,” with Serial NTC42616056 and PIN 147210987820. Together, the two receipts total GH¢500.00 — the exact figure that appears in every NTC registration notice reviewed from 2023 through 2026, and the exact figure the Council has publicly stated.
This is money actually paid by a candidate, not a fee merely advertised, and it independently confirms both fee components — indexing and registration — match the historical figures with no increase.
3. Official denial
This is the second time in seven months that fee-increase claims have circulated around a GTLE registration period. NTC Board Chairman Emmanuel Kwame Alorvi addressed the renewed claim directly, describing being forwarded a message alleging an increase and rejecting it outright: “I want to assure everybody that since 2023, the fee has been the same. Nothing has changed.” This aligns with the NTC Public Affairs Unit’s September 3, 2026 statement, which set the combined fresh-candidate fee at GH¢500 (GH¢450 + GH¢50 indexing), unchanged since 2023, and with Alorvi’s and Deputy Education Minister Dr Clement Apaak’s near-identical denials in February 2026. This fact-check could not identify, from available reporting, the specific post or account that originated the renewed September claims; it only shows they resurfaced around the GTLE 2 registration and examination window, mirroring the pattern seen in February around GTLE 1.
Conclusion
The claim that the NTC has increased teacher licensure fees is FALSE. NTC Board Chairman Emmanuel Kwame Alorvi has reaffirmed that the fee has remained unchanged since 2023, consistent with the Council’s September 3, 2026 statement and February 2026 denials. The claim appears to be a recurrence of the same unfounded rumour that circulated ahead of the March 2026 sitting and resurfaced around the September GTLE 2 registration window.
