{"id":369608,"date":"2017-11-09T06:50:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T06:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=369608"},"modified":"2017-11-09T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T06:50:08","slug":"distance-education-students-angry-over-selective-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/distance-education-students-angry-over-selective-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Distance education students angry over \u2018selective\u2019 recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Distance Education Students Association of Ghana (DESAG), has accused the Ministry of Education of discriminating against it members in a recent recruitment exercise.<\/p>\n
The Ministry recently received clearance from the Finance Ministry to replace, recruit and re-appoint 22,802 teaching and non-teaching staff for the 2017\/2018 academic year in first and second cycle institutions across the country.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”yzwDjlSkfLRFE8hXQUpR5pXPaZaGqZLT”]But the Public Relations Officer for the Distance Education Students, David Fianu, said their checks indicate that none of their members has been recruited, a situation he said has created a huge backlog of unemployed distance education graduates.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur question is on what grounds are they also saying that those who obtained their certificates by distance and sandwich will not be considered. We want to get an explanation of that statement. We don\u2019t understand why they want to limit recruitment to only college students. The letter we had was that there was a limited recruitment for teaching staff. And in that letter they stated that candidates who obtained their certificates by distance and sandwich will not be considered.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNow we felt bad because the University of Cape Coast sets questions for college students.\u00a0 The same university is preparing people from the distance programme. It means that we all get the same experience and all the necessary skills they need in the teaching field. So why will the Ghana Education Service now limit recruitment to only college students? That is our concern,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
DESAG further charged the Ministry to explain the format it used for the recruit exercise.<\/p>\n
We can\u2019t employ more public sector workers<\/strong><\/p>\n