The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has stated that resolving issues concerning unposted teachers is a key government priority, and steps are already underway to place them in schools.
He stressed that the education sector remained Ghana’s largest employer and, with the government’s plans for quality education, every effort would be made to ensure that the human resources to achieve that were deployed.
Mr Iddrisu was responding to the peaceful protests by some unposted teachers who hit the streets last Wednesday to demand postings.
Unemployed trained teachers
The group, calling themselves the Coalition of Unemployed Trained Teachers from the Colleges of Education, staged a demonstration to demand postings after multiple appeals to the government had failed to yield any positive results for them.
The group, made up of 2022 and 2023 backlog, said its members had not been posted despite passing the Teacher Licensure Examination and completing their national service.
Approval
In his response, the Education Minister indicated that Cabinet had approved the recruitment of 6,100 teachers, exclusively from the 2023 graduate cohort, adding that they had been duly accounted for in the government’s recruitment records.
“Education remains Ghana’s largest employer. I understand that some striking teachers are looking for us on the streets of Accra.
To respond to them, Cabinet gave approval for us to recruit some 6100 more teachers and. therefore, that category of teachers belonging to the 2023 cohort is adequately captured,” he said.
He stressed that the government remained committed to integrating trained teachers into the system, adding that the ongoing recruitment would help clear part of the backlog of unposted educators.
The minister further urged the protesting teachers to return to their offices to go through the verification processes.
“I will be surprised if it is the same group that is on the streets.
They should rather be looking for us and going back to offices for the purpose of audit and identification to be reinstated and to be paid,” he stated.
