Dear Mr. President of the Republic of Ghana,
His excellency NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFFO ADDO, we the Unemployed University Teachers in the country respectfully call for your intervention to order Ghana Education Service (GES) to reconsider its subjective recruitment policy.
The Education Act 2008 (ACT 778) by National Teaching Council (NTC) compels all recognized trained teachers from both Universities and Colleges to undertake Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE) in order to be licensed as Professional Teachers.
We gladly adhere to this Act so as to meet the necessary conditions and criteria that facilitate our posting into classrooms to impart knowledge and affect positive change in pupils.
NANA, during schooling periods, we accessed interest-bearing loans to finance our higher education which we have not been able to settle. Also, for feeding, transportation and accommodation, we went ahead to secure extra loans to get the mandatory national service assignment done with the aim of being posted to settle off the loans.
Also, the Education Act 2008 (Act 778) indicates that ‘a person shall not be employed as a teacher in a pre-tertiary institution unless that person has been certified and registered as a teacher by the Teaching Authority’. This clause under no circumstance prioritizes no institution ahead of the other.
Despite the Act above, GES had had such an unfair recruitment policy that favour only the College of Education graduates from both public and private sectors. Meanwhile, such institutions are affiliated to the Universities from which we have equally been trained.
This has however brought economic hardship on us, over-dependence on immediate family members and finally, a severe headache on us due to the outstanding interest-bearing loans we accessed during schooling and National Service periods respectively.
We, therefore, appeal to you to come to our aid by ordering GES to secure us employment.
We believe that our President who is looking for 4 more years to do more of very good works he is doing now will pay attention to a target group of Fifteen thousand (25,000) unemployed University Graduate Teachers.
Thank you.
By: Ernest Apraku
Phone: 0201121786
