MoE gives a clearance update for university graduates recruitment
A request has been sent to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for financial clearance to be given to the Ghana Education Service (GES) for this year’s university graduates recruitment, the Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has said.
In an interview monitored by Pretertiary.com, the Education Minister said the Ministry of Education when granted the financial clearance would inform the Ghana Education Service to commence the tertiary graduates recruitment.
“We have sent a request to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for financial clearance to recruit the government university graduates, they did the basic school clearance for us now we are going to request graduate clearance,” Adutwum said.
The Minister of Education said the Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) will only consider graduate teachers who have completed national service and passed the teacher licensure examination for the 2024 recruitment.
The Education Minister following the impending recruitment has advised graduates seeking to be employed to pay attention to job announcements put out by his outfit in terms of what criteria the recruitment financial clearance is.
“The Ministry of Education and Ghana Education Service usually announce the recruitment of teachers on our various social media handles, I will urge those seeking to be recruited this year to pay attention to such adverts,” he noted.
Relatedly, The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Dr Eric Nkansah says his outfit is awaiting financial clearance from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to commence this academic year’s recruitment of university graduates.
Dr Nkansah’s update comes after he announced on social media that the Ghana Education Service under the auspices of the Ministry of Education will consider government university graduates for recruitment before the end of 2024.
“We are pressing for financial clearance for university degree holders and diplomates. when we get there, we will follow the same process,” the GES Director-General said in reply to a social media comment sighted by Pretertiary.com.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance’s (MoF) financial clearance for the management of the Ghana Education Service under the Education Ministry to recruit tertiary graduates into service for this year will expire on December 31, 2024.
An official of GES in a discussion with Pretertiary.com said the management of his outfit is working tirelessly to ensure more graduate teachers are recruited into service this year before the end of the recruitment clearance deadline.
He expressed hope that the Ghana Education Service (GES) before December 31, 2024, will recruit public tertiary graduates who have completed national service and sat and passed the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE).
“We hope that we recruit more graduates before the end of December 31, 2024, because our financial clearance from the Ministry of Finance is to ensure that we employ before December 31, 2024,” the GES official stated.
