The total number of teacher recruitment since 2017, would be 56, 000 by the end of October, 2019 the Minister of Education has announced.
“By the close of the month October,2019 56,000 teachers would have been employed since you became President of Ghana. Last year at the advent of the double track, you employed 8,700 teachers to support the teaching staff. As we speak, we are about employing over 1,500 school support staff to support the kitchen staff who seem to have been overly burdened by the double track,” Hon Matthew Opoku told the president at a congregation on the Eastern regional tour.
Addressing students of Nkawkaw Senior High School in the Kwahu West Municipal of the Eastern Region as part of President Akufo-Addo’s three-day tour of the region, the Education Minister said under the Free SHS policy, students also get free uniforms, food and other stuff and this has not happened in many years.
He further said the government was keen on resolving all problems associated with the Free SHS to make it even better. “Your Excellency, you said at the beginning of your government that if there was any sector that Ghana should put its investment in, it is the future of the country, and that future is represented by the beneficiaries of the Free SHS,” he added.
Dr. Robert Forson, Headmaster of the Nkawkaw Senior High School, on his part urged the government to continue to improve infrastructure in the various schools, including his school to enhance teaching and learning.
Source: ritefmonline.org
