‘Unit/Mission schools cannot post new teachers’
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said Regional Managers of Unit/ Mission Schools can no longer select and post newly qualified teachers to their schools because of the government’s new salary payment system.
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According to the GES, moving a teacher from one school to another in the same district is okay but sending the teacher to another district would create a salary payment problem.
The Director for Basic Education, Mr Stephen Adu, said this while speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in a follow-up to its Friday report from Ho that heads of Unit/Mission Schools were protesting against the denial of the quota that allowed them to select newly qualified teachers.
Previously, the GES allowed the Regional Managers of Unit/Mission Schools to also declare the number of vacancies available and were permitted a quota to select newly qualified teachers for posting to their schools.
According to the GNA, a rumpus was raging between Basic School Unit Heads and officials at the Volta Regional Education Directorate over the posting of newly trained teachers.
The unit heads said their responsibilities of postings and transfers had been taken from them without notice while the GES said the new move was to rationalise the posting procedure for “equity”.
Mr Adu said the Finance Ministry and the Controller and Accountant General’s Department had created cost centres at the district levels where district education directors would be responsible for certifying for the payment of salaries of teachers at the end of each month.
He said the GES posted new teachers to district assembly schools based on the number of vacancies declared by the head teachers. He said the Upper East, Upper West, Northern and Volta regions were facing teacher shortages, while the other six regions of the country were having excess teachers but with some few districts under-staffed.
Mr Adu said under the GES staff rationalisation system, teachers were being moved at the regional levels alongside the posting of new ones, hence regions with excess staff might not benefit from the postings of newly trained teachers.
He said at the end of July, the list of new teachers who would not be posted in the regions with excess staff would be forwarded to the GES Headquarters for redistribution to other regions.