Upgrading of teachers returning from study leave and the Controversies surrounding it. Check it

The Ghana education service is responsible for the promotion and upgrading of its employees both the teaching and non-teaching staff. Last year the Ghana education service changes its mode of promoting teachers from interviewing to writing aptitude tests. These teachers who were able to write and passed their aptitude test in 2020 were promoted to … Read more

Teachers need a bit of motivation – Mr. Yaw Mensah

Over the years teachers have been working all the time with little take-home pay. The outbreak of this deadly pandemic has even worsened the case of our teachers in the schools. Teachers have been working like health official in the schools as well as teaching to ensure the safety of students in schools, teachers have … Read more

Shift system to be introduced in schools. Find out?

The recent increase in cases of the virus in our schools is life-threatening and so worrying. This made a lot of people complaining and asking for the government to close down schools to reduce the number of cases that are recording in our schools both basic and senior high schools in the country. The last … Read more

Don’t shut down schools- Child Right International (CRI)

There has been increasing in the number of virus cases in Ghanaian schools among children between the ages of 0 to 17 years but the nongovernmental organization, Child Right International (CRI) has called on the government not to shut down schools considering the data available to them. According to them, the number of virus cases … Read more

Teachers complained of writing printed lesson notes with ink.

Attention has been drawn by the teaching fraternity where some headteachers have been insisting on their teachers in various schools in Ghana to write their lesson notes in their lesson notes books rather than just printing lesson note on the internet and bringing it for vetting. This posture by some headteachers has made their teachers … Read more

Ges introduce new educational policies with no initiative to motivate the teacher.

In 2019, 2020, and 2021, new educational policies and programs have been introduced into the Ghanaian schools mostly the basis school by the Ghana education service and NaCCA with little or no initiative to motivate teachers who are the machinery when it comes to the implementation of this enacted policies. Teachers in all years have … Read more

Ghana Education Service should review the hours’ pupils spend at the basic school level.

Time is a precious resource in the achievement of a goal or aim set by an organization and needs to be managed wisely but the health of the human resources in an organization should also be observed when planning the time to achieve the set goals or aim of the organization. Our checks have shown … Read more

The government must close down primary schools – Dr. Michael Owusu, a virologist at KCCR

A clinical microbiologist and lecturer at the department of medical diagnostic at Kwame Nkrumah University of science and technology have called on the government to consider taking a firm decision in closing down lower primary schools due to the recent increase in the case of the virus in Ghana. According to the virologist, the inability … Read more

Teacher unions must negotiate with Ghana Education Service (GES) to provide teachers with a uniform allowance.

Professional bodies like lawyers, bankers, nurses, police, soldier, and many other professionals have their prescribed uniforms that give them unique identification where ever they found themselves. The teaching profession which our checks have been identified to be the largest sector hosting thousands of public sector workers is the only profession without any identified uniform which … Read more

Check it out, Ghana education Service (GES) should consider the motivation needs of primary school teachers.

During this pandemic, schools have been asked to operate by considering all the safety protocols that can help prevent the staff and their pupils. Taking a critical look at how young children are difficult to manage in the house and this primary and kindergarten teacher are managing to take absolute care of our young ones … Read more