{"id":220768,"date":"2016-06-08T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=220768"},"modified":"2016-06-08T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:05:02","slug":"teacher-absenteeism-on-the-decline-education-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/teacher-absenteeism-on-the-decline-education-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher absenteeism on the decline – Education Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of Education has announced a reduction in teacher absenteeism at the basic school level from 27 percent, to about 11 percent in the last three years.<\/p>\n
Speaking at an education decentralization campaign, led by the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition in Accra, a Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa, highlighted the\u00a0progress his outfit had made in the fight against this canker.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”BRO4lzVO7c5HTHJfMhOn0Jf8fP7P1ojn”]He noted that\u00a0formerly,\u00a0the rate of teacher absenteeism was at an \u201cunacceptable\u201d and \u201ccriminal\u201d level of 27 percent.<\/p>\n
This accounted for over a quarter of the 392,000 teachers employed by the government in basic schools according to the Deputy Minister of Education.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look the numbers, you have 392,000 teachers at the basic level and more than quarter of that number. It means thousands of people were just not showing up and yet they were smiling to the bank at the end of the month.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Ablakwa however hailed the progress the Education Ministry has made in the last couple of years saying, \u201cI am happy to report that as I speak to you, the current numbers have come down. We are looking at between 9 \u2013 11 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n