Parliament condemns GTEC request for MoE to recruit 2k teachers
Parliament’s Education Committee has condemned the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) request for the Ministry of Education to give them financial clearance to recruit 2,500 teachers despite unresolved College of Education teachers strike action.
Speaking in an interview the Deputy Ranking Member of Parliament’s Education Committee, Dr Clement Abas Apaak said GTEC should find solutions to the industrial action rather than seeking clearance to employ more teachers.
“I think that this move is a very bad move, it ought to be withdrawn. Government must shower the needed resources to meet its obligation to the teachers and let them go back and teach,” he said in the interview monitored by Pretertiary.com.
The Deputy Ranking Member of Parliament’s Education Committee argued the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission’s decision to employ more teachers is bad because there is no budgetary allocation for recruiting more tutors.
“We know that we passed the 2024 budget, we have also seen the minister for Finance come with the Mid-year review budget, there are no allocations or estimations to cater for the recruitment of 2500 lecturers. This can not happen within the next two to three months. I can tell you that on authority.
I am a lecturer. I have gone through the processes. The process itself of recruiting lecturers, it is not something you can do within two weeks or even a month. Clearly it is not feasible,” Dr Clement Abas Apaak said on Joy FM’s Top Story.
His comment comes after the management of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) in a statement petitioned the Ministry in Charge of Education (MoE) for financial clearance to recruit 2,500 teachers in the country.
In the statement sighted by Pretertiary.com, the Tertiary Commission emphasised that the over 2,000 teachers recruitment is intended to alleviate the current academic workload and ensure that academic activities can resume promptly.
The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) management assured that once the financial clearance is received, it will swiftly communicate the recruitment process to ensure the timely deployment of the new staff.
“The Commission is in serious talks with the Honourable Minister of Education for financial clearance to be granted to GTEC to recruit some two thousand five hundred (2500) teaching staff to augment the current load for academic work to commence as quickly as possible while we work with CETAG to resolve their concerns.
GTEC will communicate to you the modalities with which this urgent staff recruitment will be expedited as soon as the clearance is provided,” It said in the statement.
