About Us
Transforming Teaching, Education & Learning
Who We Are
Transforming Teaching, Education & Learning (T-TEL) is a Ghanaian not-for-profit organisation that provides high quality technical advice, project management, research and implementation support services, using local talent and expertise to enable Ghana’s education system to reach greater heights.
On 7th July 2020, T-TEL was established as a not-for-profit organisation following the successful completion of a six year (2014-2020) $34 million Government of Ghana programme funded by FCDO and implemented by Cambridge Education
This programme, also called T-TEL, was initially designed to strengthen pre-service teacher training. It grew into a large scale comprehensive teacher education policy reform programme owned by the Ministry of Education and led by the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC). The T-TEL programme successfully helped GTEC to introduce a Bachelor in Education (B.Ed.) degree in Initial Teacher Education in all 46 public Colleges of Education (CoEs) through affiliation with 5 public universities. The T-TEL programme was seen by key stakeholders including FCDO and the Ministry of Education as a very successful programme which brought about significant changes in Ghana’s teacher education system. The programme ended in December 2020.
It was this success that led to the decision to establish T-TEL as a Ghanaian not-for-profit organization. The T-TEL organization provides a much broader range of advice and support to the Government of Ghana in its mission to transform Ghana’s education system.
Our Vision & Mission
Vision: Transformed education for development.
Mission: To support government to strengthen Ghana’s education system
and deliver consistent improvements in teaching quality, equitable
learning outcomes and skills development.
Operating Principles
Government-led and aligned with national priorities: T-TEL aligns fully with government priorities and educational reforms. Our role is to strengthen existing systems whilst promoting Ghanaian expertise rather than duplicating them.
A whole-system approach to lasting change: T-TEL believes in taking a whole-system approach when it comes to supporting government to connect curriculum, assessment, pre-service and in-service teacher education, school leadership and motivation into a coherent reform agenda. We provide technical support across the education ecosystem to ensure enable that reforms actively
reduce existing inequalities in access, participation, and learning outcomes.
Using data and evidence to drive improvement: By supporting the Ministry
of Education to utilize robust data to inform decision-making at national, subnational and institution level.
Enabling government leadership: T-TEL believes that its role is to support government to achieve sustained improvements in teaching and learning rather than drawing attention to itself. Communication and behaviour change activities are therefore focused on supporting government to articulate their priorities and progress with stakeholders and Ghanaian citizens.
Recognising education as a transformative driver of national identity and development: Education plays a critical role in shaping Ghana’s sense of identity and purpose. T-TEL recognises this and focuses on ensuring that curricula and learning materials embrace Ghanaian languages, culture and values as well as foundational literacy and numeracy.
Robust and reliable internal systems that enable accountability and
sustainable growth: T-TEL’s technical support is founded on robust internal
financial, operational and internal audit systems that ensure transparency and
continuous improvement.