{"id":47598,"date":"2014-09-15T12:33:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=47598"},"modified":"2014-09-15T12:33:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:33:21","slug":"teacher-absenteeism-reduced-by-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=47598","title":{"rendered":"Teacher absenteeism reduced by 16%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Teacher absenteeism has been reduced from 27 to 11 percent, the Education Minster, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang has said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In March 2014, the <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/03\/03\/minister-commissions-committee-to-tackle-teacher-absenteeism\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Ministry commissioned a committee<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to design measures to address the issue of teacher absenteeism, as part of efforts to effectively implement the policy of \u2018Zero Tolerance for Teacher Absenteeism.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The policy was also aimed at increasing the time teachers spend in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Finance and the Controller and Accountant General&#8217;s Department were subsequently incorporated into the exercise.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;n5BUfUeeyI7mVcSnjwWaTnPcKowkPkLr&#8221;]Speaking at a forum held to review the performance of the sector, the Minister recalled that in February 2014, the number of teachers who were absenting themselves from the classroom was alarming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we came to the Ministry in early February, it was 27 percent and I was very, very alarmed by it\u2026although most of them [teachers] were working, 27 percent was totally unacceptable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She nonetheless, commended the various teacher unions for supporting the Ministry to bring down the number.<\/p>\n<p>The sector Minister was optimistic that the percentage will be brought down to zero despite the significant improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome next year, we would like to see continuing drop in teacher absenteeism\u2026We know we can,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Agyeman urged teachers to only absent themselves from work with genuine reasons saying, \u201cthe absenteeism should be genuine, we can all fall ill at anytime but it cannot be the norm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher absenteeism has been reduced from 27 to 11 percent, the Education Minster, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang has said. 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