Promises of motivating teachers in rural areas are a complete illusion

There have been several promises of motivating teachers who accept to be posted in hard-to-reach areas or rural communities by the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education. The management of the Ghana Education Service has made it clear in their code of conduct that teachers who accept to be posted in rural areas … Read more

Teachers in public basic schools to be audited by external auditors.

The management of the Ghana Audit service has announced and started auditing the professional, payroll, and academic qualifications of teachers in some public basic schools across the country. According to the managrnment of the Ghana Audit Service, their external auditors have started auditing some Municipal and District Education workers in the country. Information gathered by … Read more

Laying off unqualified teachers in basic schools is not the priority of NTC – Dr. Christian Addai poku

The Registrar of the National Teaching Council Dr. Christian Addai poku has disclosed that it is not the priority of his office to lay off unqualified teachers occupying classrooms in public and private basic schools across the country. Speaking on Wednesday 23rd February 2025, Dr. Christian Addai poku mentioned that he is not interested in … Read more

NTC to organize free online Professional development training for teachers

The management of the National Teaching Council (NTC) has disclosed organizing free online Professional development training workshops for all teachers in the public basic schools in the country. According to the management of NTC, this is a collaboration between the management of the National Teaching Council and Instill Education to organize this online training for … Read more

Lesson notes must be prepared and approved – GES warned

There has been a major controversy by teachers, District Directors of Education, School Improvement, and Support Officers as to whether lesson notes should be prepared by writing in a notebook or printed. The Ministry of Education has officially given a green light to teachers to either submit lesson notes electronically or submitted manually depending on … Read more

Teachers charge to pay some monies at district level before receiving their laptops.

Some management of the Ghana Education Service in some district Education offices are charging teachers to pay some monies before their already paid controversial laptops are given to them. The majority of teachers in District Education offices that have received their one teacher one laptop are complaining that they are still being charged to pay … Read more

Teacher unions to strike over salary issues

The leadership of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has threatened strike action should government fail to restore the names of teachers that have been taken off from the payroll. According to the president of NAGRAT Mr. Angel Carbonu, the reason given by the management of the Ghana Education Service for deletion of such … Read more

Salaries validation: No validator should refuse to validate any teacher on the basis of any reason – GES to validators

According to the management of the Ghana Education Service, their attention has been drawn to severalreports of some staff having their names going off the payroll. In some instances, it is reported that the names have gone off due to non-validation by accreditedvalidators of such staff purely as a punitive measure based on personal disagreements … Read more

The 21 Mandatory CPD points building Courses for all In-Service Teachers.

The Registrar at the National Teaching Council (NTC) Dr. Addai Opoku said the licensing of teachers will be of no use without its points building and its renewal. Due to this teachers will be required to part take in any three of the under-listed courses by the management of the National Teaching Council to train … Read more

NTC Rank based training topics for all licensed in-service teachers in GES

The licensing of teachers started the last year 2025 by the management of the National Teaching Council (NTC) of which the majority of teachers in various regions have received their license. Starting from 2025 most teachers will have to renew their license based on the CPD points obtained from either professional courses or workshops or … Read more