The Ghana Education Service (GES) on Wednesday warned the public against responding to advertisements from private teacher training colleges saying candidates who would respond to these advertisements would be doing so at their own risk.

A statement issued in Accra said despite warnings to the private teacher training colleges, some of them have started advertising for candidates for admission in September 2003.

"The Ghana Education Service would like to emphasise that none of the colleges has accreditation. Candidates who respond to these adverts do so at their own risk."

The statement said students, who were qualified and were in the private teacher training colleges would be absorbed into he government teacher training colleges in September 2003.

It asked affected students to contact the Director, Teacher Education Division of the GES with the originals of their result slips and certificates in August 2003.

The statement said this would assist the Teacher Education Division to facilitate their absorption.