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‘Teacher rationalisation exercise must yield results’

The General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Mrs Irene Duncan–Adanusa, has cautioned the Ghana Education Service (GES) to ensure that the rationalisation exercise involving the transfer of teachers to rural areas is cost-effective and yields the expected results.

She said the exercise should be done in a technical and scientific manner to avoid a situation where there would be schools without teachers or teachers without schools who were on the government’s payroll.

She said the rationalisation exercise was an obvious and normal activity of any credible human resource management because it created equity in the distribution of teachers and that arbitrariness should be avoided in carrying out the exercise.

Mrs Duncan-Adanusa was addressing the closing ceremony of a two-day orientation programme for regional council members and secretaries of the GNAT in Ho in the Volta Region.

She asked teachers to be concerned about professional development and output because GNAT as a professional body complemented the work of the GES.

The General Secretary also urged them to show interest in national issues and not concentrate their attention on their salaries and emoluments because national policies affected their work and added that development issues in the communities should be of great interest to them as frontline leaders.

She asked the participants to serve as the interface between the employer and employees and that they must abide by the tenets of accountability in the districts so as to ward off the several complaints that had emanated from the districts.

The Volta Regional Chairman of GNAT, Mr Alex Mawusi Buadi, said society was dynamic and asked the association to be innovative and break away from the old order of doing things.

He said with over 170,000 membership, GNAT,  the reorganisation of GNAT must start with a solid stewardship from the grassroots level to ensure massive participation of members.

He asked teachers to work harder in order to win the confidence of the public and also asked them to access the Teacher’s Fund and home ownership scheme to achieve self dependency.

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