The android devices, which were purchased at the cost of GHc30,000.00, forms part of the implementation of the “Improving Learning Outcomes through ICT and Evidence Base Approach,” a project funded by Making All Voices Count.

Mr Moses Batong, the SAVE-Ghana Programmes Manager, who presented the devices, said the project was being implemented across 88 schools in the Upper West Region.

He noted that the presentation of the 50 devices added up to the 25 presented earlier to the Directorate.
He said they would complement the desktop computers already installed at the various schools and that through a software, teachers could login when they report at school and logout when leaving.

Mr Batong said the Regional Director could then monitor the attendance of teachers in the various schools at the comfort of her office, thereby, improving supervision.

Mr Yaro Kumbiley, the Deputy Director of Human Resource Management Division of the Regional Education Directorate, who received the mobile devices on behalf of the Regional Director of Education, thanked SAVE-Ghana for the support.

He said the innovation of monitoring would go a long way to check teacher absenteeism, which was one of the major contributors to poor education in the Region.

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Source: GNA

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Alex Kyeremeh, a Deputy Minister of Education (Pre-Tertiary), said the teacher absenteeism rate in the basic schools as at the time of visit was very encouraging.

He said the figure was arrived by a team of inspectors from the NIB who visited 1, 799 basic schools in the ten regions.

The Deputy Minister, who is also the Member of Parliament for Techiman, said eight regions out of the ten regions in the country recorded a single digit teacher absenteeism during the review.

He urged the board to continue to work hard to be able to reduce further the concern.

Dr Augustine Tawiah, Chief Inspector of Schools at the NIB, said his 31 percent of absentees are without any reason, 41 percent with reasons, nine percent sick, six and 10 percent attends workshop and maternity respectively.

He said the situation to the NIB was quite serious as many parents who sent their wards to these schools do not visit them even when Parents and Teachers Association (PTA) call for meetings.

Dr Tawiah said though the many private schools do not want to be inspected, they are doing all they can to add some of these schools in their list.

The Chief Inspector said the Greater Accra Region has 37 and 63 percent of professional non professional teachers respectively, whiles Ashanti Region, has 34 and 66 of professional and non-professional teachers respectively.

He called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to ensure that this act is halted and urged teachers to work hard to be recognized.

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Soure: GNA

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