The Ministry of Education
says teachers who absent themselves from the classrooms for a cumulative period
of two weeks, will be dismissed from the Ghana Education Service. The move
follows fresh reports from the World Bank and UNICEF which ranked Ghana first
in teacher absenteeism in West Africa. According to the reports, teacher idling
is the major contributory factor to the low performance of pupils and students
in public basic schools. But Deputy Education Minister in charge of Basic
Education, Alex Kyeremeh says the situation will no longer be tolerated. He
said henceforth, teachers who stay out of the classrooms will suffer pay-cuts
for the period they absented themselves. The Minister said Government’s
declaration of “Zero Tolerance for Absentee Teachers” has yielded significant
results. According to him, cases of absenteeism have seen a dramatic drop from
27 percent in 2013 to 11 percent in 2014. He, however, said the sanctions will
not apply to teachers suffering terminal illness as well as those with genuine
reasons to stay out of the classroom.
Source:Myjoyonline.com
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