We’re bringing a management information system platform – GES
The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Dr Eric Nkansah says his outfit as part of efforts to digitalize its operations in the country in due course will introduce the GES Management Information System Platform.
Speaking at the launch of the 2024 Ghana Teacher Prize (GTP) in Accra at the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) hall, the GES official said relevant information or data will be uploaded on the information system platform.
“We are currently working to implement the GES Management Information System Platform which will house all relevant data on schools, staff, learners and infrastructure,” the Director-General said at the 2024 GTP launch.
The GES management information system platform he said will enable staff to apply for assurance letters, transfers, salary-related issues, leave and a host of other things related to the Service which progress can be tracked online.
In his address at the 2024 Ghana Teacher Prize launch on the theme: “Celebrating Excellence: Valorising Our Teachers”, he said GES will continue to explore innovative and smart ways to deal with working challenges confronting staff.
Relatedly, the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum says the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education Service are jointly setting up a special teachers portal for teachers to register their grievances on the platform.
Speaking at the Ghana teacher licensing and registration launch, the Education Minister of Education said his outfit will assign case managers who will handle the issues to make sure that the complaints or cases are resolved.
“When they are resolved, there will be a dashboard for me to know that there was for instance a reduction of 20,000 complaints from Ashanti or other regions,” Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum told participants at the 2021 GTLE launch.
The teachers portal, the Minister in Charge of Education and the Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe constituency said will help him to remove the impediments of teachers and improve their welfare issues to do their job well.
At a separate event the same year, Adutwum announced he was establishing a union desk at the Ministry of Education (MoE) to receive issues relating to the various teacher unions in the country for an immediate solution.
The purpose of the union’s desk, the Education Minister indicated is to deal with issues confronting the unions in the educational sector including teacher’s allowances, welfare, and other challenges affecting the education sector.
“I am setting up a unions desk in the Minister’s office which means there will be somebody in my office who deals with the unions at any point in time,” the Minister for Education told the leadership of the pre-tertiary teacher unions.
