Academic exercise has re-started in\u00a0 10 basic schools that had remained technically closed down for months because of lack of teachers, in the Mamprugu-Moaduri District of the Northern Region.<\/p>\n
This followed the engagement of few community voluntary<\/span> teachers,\u00a0 as part of a stop-gap measure,\u00a0 as the Mamprugu-Moaduri District Directorate of Education awaited the deployment of trained teachers to the district.<\/p>\n Mr Mohammed Abu Baba, Mamprugu-Moaduri District Director of Education announced this at a stakeholders\u2019 forum in Tamale organized by the Net Organization for Youth Empowerment and Development (NOYED-Ghana),\u00a0 to discuss the significance of the contributions of community voluntary teachers in promoting quality education in West Mamprusi, Talensi-Nabdam and Jirapa Districts.<\/p>\n It formed part of a programme<\/span> dubbed Tackling Education Needs Inclusively (TENI) being implemented by NOYED-Ghana,\u00a0 with support from Voluntary Service Organization<\/span>,\u00a0 to lead the promotion of local volunteering for quality education delivery in the three districts.<\/p>\n Mr. Abu Baba said the Mamprugu-Moaduri District had 27 kindergartens, 33 primary schools and 13 junior high schools, while the total number of teachers at post was 152, leaving a shortfall of 226.<\/p>\n He said a number of the teachers currently at post had also put in applications for study leave,\u00a0 threatening the already precarious situation,\u00a0 adding \u201cA lot more teachers posted to the district have refused to come.\u201d<\/p>\n He explained why teachers refused to serve in the district saying<\/span> \u201cThe district lacks basic amenities including electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n He was hopeful that the on-going teacher redeployment exercise being undertaken by the Ghana Education Service, would lead to the posting of more qualified teachers to the district,\u00a0 to help improve the pupil-teacher ratio and standard of education in the district.<\/p>\n Mr Saani Nurudeen, Upper West Regional Director of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency(<\/span>GYEEDA), who presented a report on the topic: Reducing Teacher Shortages in Rural Ghana Using Community Education Teaching Assistants (CETA) module of GYEEDA, said a lot of schools in the region lacked trained teachers, while others did not have teachers at post.<\/p>\n Mr Nurudeen suggested solar lamps and improvement in road infrastructure and other amenities to encourage teachers to accept postings to deprived communities.<\/p>\n Dr Sagre Bambangi, Member of Parliament for Walewale,\u00a0 called for special packages and preferential treatment for teachers who accept postings to deprived communities to entice others to such communities.<\/p>\n Mr Alhassan Abdulai Iddi, Executive Director of NOYED-Ghana,\u00a0 said the organization had placed 27 community volunteer teachers at Jirapa, West Mamprusi and Talensi Nabdam Districts, and is supporting them with in-service training, logistics and monthly stipends to motivate them to help improve education in those districts.<\/p>\n Reports showed that there was excess teacher supply<\/span> in the country,\u00a0 but deprived communities lacked adequate number<\/span> of teachers,\u00a0 because most teachers preferred to remain in urban centers, making those schools\u00a0 have more than required number<\/span> of teachers.<\/p>\n NOYED-Ghana is a youth organization that seeks to improve the quality of life of youth and the vulnerable in society for sustainable development<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Academic exercise has re-started in\u00a0 10 basic schools that had remained technically closed down for months because of lack of teachers, in the Mamprugu-Moaduri District of the Northern Region. This followed the engagement of few community voluntary teachers,\u00a0 as part of a stop-gap measure,\u00a0 as the Mamprugu-Moaduri District Directorate of Education awaited the deployment of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[54,43,521,16,347],"yoast_head":"\n