Prof Opoku Amankwa, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, rejected the notion that over 44,000 teachers quit the classroom due to bad working conditions.
According to Prof Opoku Amankwa, Director-General of Ghana Education Service, just 293 teachers resigned in 2021.
He noted that the Ghana Education Service employs 8,209 teachers (6,834 teaching and 1,375 non-teaching).
In a recent press release, Builsa South MP Dr. Clement Apaak, who is also the ranking member of Parliament for Education, said that out of 284,000 teachers, over 44,000 had departed the field.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education released information this week that showed the 44,000-figure reported by Dr. Clement Apaak was really 34,434.
In an interview, Prof Opoku Amankwa emphasized that the payroll, not the Education Management Information Service, should be used to determine the number of instructors that left the service (EMIS).
He went on to clarify that using the EMIS to determine the number of instructors leaving the teaching service is misleading since total attrition comprises vacation, resignation, obligatory retirement, termination of appointment, and dismissal.
Source: TheBBCghana.Com
