Education policy think tank, Africa Education Watch, has advised the government to publish a comprehensive teacher posting plan.
This request includes a call for specific district-level quotas regarding the distribution of the 7,000 newly announced teaching positions.
The organisation argues that such measures are vital to ensuring transparency throughout the recruitment process and achieving an equitable allocation of educators across the nation.
During a press briefing focused on education policy monitoring, Kofi Asare, the Executive Director of Eduwatch, emphasised that the Minister for Education and the Minister for Finance must collaborate effectively.
Their primary objective should be securing supplementary funding to cover essential transfer grants for these new recruits.
Mr Asare announced that his organisation intends to submit a formal Right to Information (RTI) request to obtain precise data on the number of teachers being deployed to underserved communities.
Regarding the necessity of this oversight, Mr Asare noted: “In line with the president’s directive on decentralised teacher postings, we call for transparency in the recruitment and deployment of teachers. The GES, pursuant to this, must publish a teacher posting plan indicating the quotas being distributed to all teacher-deprived districts that are receiving the 7,000 teachers.”
This level of disclosure is intended to create a robust framework for external oversight. Asare continued: “This will form the basis of civil society and media monitoring of distributive efficiency at the district level and provide us with an opportunity to give feedback to the Ministry for Education to ensure that there is effectiveness in policy implementation.”
Mr Asare added: “EduWatch is going to submit an RTI to GES to request this data and enable our partner NGOs across rural Ghana to monitor deployment using the quotas assigned to every district. We are going to monitor every teacher deployed up to the school level and report to the ministry.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
