MoE gives date to start limited recruitment drive for SHS teachers

A limited recruitment drive to ensure more trained teachers are posted to teach in various government Senior High Schools (SHSs) according to the Minister in Charge of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum will commence next week.

In a social media post sighted by Pretertiary.com, the Education Minister said more details of the limited recruitment for government school teachers to begin next week will be communicated to members of the general public.

“I’m pleased to announce that a limited recruitment drive for high school teachers will commence next week. Stay tuned for more details on how to apply and the specific areas of focus for this recruitment,” Dr Adutwum stated.

The limited recruitment drive comes after the Minister said it is increasingly difficult to get physics and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) subject teachers to teach students in various Senior High Schools in the country.

Relatedly, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced to recruit newly trained and qualified teachers who are indigenes of Bawku and Pusiga in the Upper East Region to teach in various government basic schools in the area.

This follows the faster pace at which the majority of teachers employed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) leave their posts in Bawku and Pusiga in the Upper East Region over security concerns amid a not ending soon conflict.

The Ghana Education Service told the Daily Graphic it is recruiting teachers already residing in the Bawku enclave to teach and manage the schools with the belief that no matter the situation they would not leave the area.

GES statistics indicate that so far, 495 basic school teachers have fled the Bawku Municipality and Pusiga District since 2022. The Municipal Directorate in Bawku in 2022 and 2023 released 166 and 205 teachers respectively.

Speaking to the Daily Graphic, the Regional Director of the GES, Bright Lawoe, said they thought it wise to come up with the idea since the situation in the area was very worrying and the schools could not be closed down over the lack of teachers.

He mentioned that subsequently, a team met with the top management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to discuss how to deal with the exodus of teachers in the Bawku area in order that it does not affect basic education.

The Upper East Regional Director of GES said the GES under the auspices of the Ministry of Education (MoE) was currently putting together the list of interested teachers for onward submission for the next line of action, stressing

“Only teachers who have successfully completed their course of study passed their licensure examination as well as done their national service qualified under the arrangement,” he told the Daily Graphic in a discussion.

He said once all the conditions for the special arrangement to recruit the teachers were satisfied, the Minister of Education would fast-track the financial clearance for such persons to be employed to teach in the affected schools.

He expressed optimism that the necessary processes would be completed ahead of time to enable the new teachers to start work at the commencement of the 2024/2025 academic year in September.

He assured stakeholders that the Service was doing everything possible to address the problem so that all schools within the Bawku enclave were not short-changed but had the required teachers to improve teaching and learning.