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The Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr Clement Apaak has disclosed about 45,000 teachers resigned from the teaching profession in 2021.
According to the lawmaker who is also a member of the Education Committee in Parliament said the government currently owes basic schools four tranches of capitation grants.
“Government owes the basic schools four tranches of capitation grants. And forty four thousand teachers have left the profession of teaching in 2021”, Apaak told Accra-based 3FM.[ads2]
“We are not aggressively recruiting the new PHDs to replace those who are retiring and not establishing many new tertiary institution to accommodate those who come out of the secondary system”, he added.
This follows a statement from Think tank and Eduwatch who also made similar revelations.
They indicated that about 44, 000 teachers resigned from the basic school system without replacements.[ads3]
Their statements commended the government for recruiting some 16,000 teachers but noted that it does not even address the deficit half-way.
“The Ministry of Education must ensure the posting of all teachers being recruited to deprived districts where they are needed, devoid of any protocol considerations,” it urged.
“In addition, the many districts with surplus teachers should be decongested, and teachers reposted to empty classrooms in deprived districts where they are most needed.[ads4]
“Eduwatch’s foremost priority for 2022 is to support the MoE by monitoring teacher postings and teacher deployment in general, in line with the Minister’s vision of One Teacher Per Classroom. Our ‘Every Child Deserves a Teacher’ Campaign will be
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