The Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, has said trained teachers who have passed their licensure examination after their National Service would only be employed based on declared vacancies.
“Those who passed the licensure exams at the end of their National Service shall then apply to the Ghana Education Service for employment based on declared vacancies,” he stated.
Dr. Prempeh disclosed this in response to a parliamentary question filed by the lawmaker of Akatsi North, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe.
Mr. Nortsu-Kotoe was seeking to know from the Education Minister steps being taken by his ministry to absorb all privately trained teachers into the education sector as done by the Ministry of Health.
In a direct response to the question, Dr. Prempeh admitted he did not know what pertains in the health sector, nevertheless, he went ahead to state that a total of 14,160 trained teachers from the Colleges of Education, both public and private, were posted by the Ghana Education Service (GES) in 2017.
This was made up of 11,733 from the public colleges and 2,427 from the private colleges. The private colleges involved were the Methodist College of Education, Akim Oda, 54, Jackson College of Education, Kumasi, 2084, Christ The Church College of Education, Kumasi, 46, ad Cambridge College of Education, Kumasi, nine.
The rest were St Ambrose College of Education, Dormaa (which has since been absorbed by the public education system), 31, Holy Spirit College of Education, Ho, 92, McCoy College of Education, Nadowli, 86 and SDA College of Education, Agona-Ashanti, 55.
“Mr. Speaker, this was the first time ever that graduates of private colleges of education were directly posted by GES,” he stated.
The recent move, he said, followed a reminder to the GES of the National Service Act, which requires graduates of all tertiary institutions to undertake national service before seeking formal employment.
“As a result,” he said, “all graduates of colleges of education, including those from public and private, were registered by the National Service Secretariat and in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service to undertake their national service, which they are currently undergoing,”
Source: Daily Heritage
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If Africa wants to thrive then we must drive the UN, IMF, world Bank, the aid agencies, and all of them away from the African continent. That will be the beginning of progress on the continent. The worshipping of the white man by our (leaders) is our only problem.
More than 40 percent of class rooms in Ghana don't have teachers! Don't say based on vacancies, say based on IMF conditions. Nothing good will ever come out of IMF, be warned! The IMF are not the kind of people you fork with, they're blad thirsty motherforkers.
govt gives allowances to students as a bait to encourage more SHS graduates to enter college of education, simply because their services were urgently needed. now if govt is no more chasing graduates from colleges of education, then why should the state pay allowances to them? my simple economics from Prof. Magnus Frimpong at KSB graduate school tell me that it doesn't make economic sense to spend money to train personnel that their services are not needed or are not in shortage.