‘Choose GES Director-General from the service’
Mary Anane
Education
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“My candid opinion is that the time has come for us to move beyond ‘best teacher award’ scheme. Let’s think of a scheme that would benefit more teachers than just a select few,” he indicated.
The continuous appointment of persons outside the service to head the institution, he said, was not in the interest of the service because it would take the person some time to study the system well before he or she could perform, arguing that “it is only the owner of a room that knows where it leaks”.
He blamed the Ghana Education Service Council, which has the duty to nominate a candidate, and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) for failing to nominate people within the service for the President’s consideration.
The conference
The delegates conference, which saw the election of a new executive to steer the affairs of GNAT in Akatsi, was under the theme: ‘Transforming society through education: The role of teacher education and the teacher in attainment of agenda 2030.”
The acting President of GNAT, Ms Philippa Larsen, stated that the world was changing at a very fast pace, therefore, as teachers, there was the need for them to change the way they did things knowing that “we are the pivot around which transformation and development evolve”.
GNAT, she said, has prioritised the professional development of its members through capacity building.
The Akatsi District Director of Education, Mr Joseph Yoga, bemoaned the increasing cases of male teachers having sexual affairs with their female students and cautioned them to desist from such acts, as the service would not hesitate to hand them over to the police when caught.
