66,357 teachers recruited since 2017 in Ghana
The GES Director said that no changes would be entertained, since the places the teachers had been posted to were areas that needed their services.
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The Director General at the Ghana Education Service, Prof. Opoku Amankwa has disclosed that a total of 66,357 teachers had been recruited since 2017
He explained that 19,640 were recruited, while 14,720 newly trained teachers from the colleges of education were recruited under the limited recruitment exercise during the 2017-2018 academic year. He added that about 3,000 of the teachers came from private colleges of education.
3,171 were alloted to the Ashanti Region, 1,604 to the Eastern Region, 1,658 to the Volta Region and 1,812 to the Bono East, Ahafo and Bono regions.
Statistics uncovered in 2019 indicates that, 14, 500 new teachers were employed for basic schools across the country from 46 colleges of education who completed their studies in 2018 and did the one year mandatory national service according to the Prof. Opoku Amankwa in an interview with Daily Graphic.
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“When we asked them (new teachers) to go online to do their registration, we got 117,000 going online to do that,” he said, adding that the remaining 14,500 were those who either went to the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), the University of Cape Coast (UCC), the Catholic University College (CUC) and the University for Development Studies (UDS) who might have done some education-related programmes,” he added.
Prof. Opoku-Amankwa indicated that the GES had secured financial clearance for the 14,500 teachers and that was why it had gone ahead to recruit them.
“You need to have financial clearance for the teachers because if you don’t do that, you can’t pay them if you employ them. You also need to have vacancies. You don’t employ just because there are people out there who need jobs,” he said.
3,171 according to the Director of GES were alloted to the Ashanti Region, 1,604 to the Eastern Region, 1,658 to the Volta Region and 1,812 to the Bono East, Ahafo and Bono regions.
He enlightened 16,500 teachers are expected to graduate from the colleges of education and the service has budgeted for them.
“The service posts you to where your services are needed and so calls for changes will not be entertained,” he reiterated.
