The Ghana Education Service has begun the recruitment of teachers for Senior High Schools across the country.
The recruitment is intended to shore up the teaching staff for Senior High Schools as government prepares to implement the double track system.
A statement from the GES said only applicants who have completed their national service will be shortlisted for subsequent examination before being engaged for the job.
The double track system ends the over 70-years old educational cycle, will kick in come September 2018 when more than 600 Senior High Schools re-open.
“Ghana Education Service wishes to inform the general public that it is recruiting graduate teachers for senior high schools as part of its arrangement for the launching of the double track system,” the GES said in a statement.
Senior High Schools are now going to run the semester system from September. “All Senior High Schools henceforth will run the semester system. Even when we build all the infrastructures, all SHSs will be semester system,” Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh has said.
