Teachers cry as GES delays opening of recruitment portal

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One of the exciting moments in the life of a teacher waiting to secure a job is the opening of the recruitment portal by the Ghana Education Service.

Sadly, the GES has not announced it is recruiting new teachers to be posted in this academic year, which is making teaching restless and worrying.

What this means is that teachers who have graduated from colleges of education, completed their mandatory national service, and passed the NTC licensure examination are still not posted by the GES.

Such teachers are currently either looking for jobs in other sectors, employed in private schools, or doing something different from their professional training.

Shortly after the GES posted the announcement for the registration of candidates for the NTC re-sit examination for teachers who failed the previous GTLE, professional teachers who have met all the requirements and are anxiously waiting for the opening of the teacher recruitment portal by the GES started to lament about the delay in making such announcements.

Some of the teachers yet to be posted met all the requirements since 2022 yet they are still not posted.

At the time of publishing this story, the Ghanaeducationnews.org could not independently verify if the GES will recruit only Diploma holders, Degree holders from Colleges of Education or degree holders for other education degree holders from the main universities. However, all teachers with these varied qualifications are looking closing at the GES Teachers recruitment portal as it remains closed.

Information available to Ghanaeducationnews.org is that the GES will not announce recruitments until it has received the needed financial clearance from the Ministry of Finance.

Until financial clearance is secured, the Ghana Education Service cannot start the recruitment of teachers.

Some teachers who could not hide their frustrations took to the Facebook page of the GES to complain about the delay.

A comment left on the Facebook page of the GES by Emmanuel Nyantakyi reads, “Ghana Education Service, please, when are you opening the portal for qualified, trained teachers as you are advertising for NTC? We completed 2022, but we have been unemployed since then. We need urgent feedback. Let’s be aware now rather than later.”

Another by Blaychie Kanrah Francis reads as follows:. “Your newly trained teachers are at home unposted, and you seem not to be bothered by Ghana Education Service.”

While the above are just two comments on the subject, they convey the worries of the teaming professional teachers who are becoming impatient as the waiting for recruitment prolongs longer than they expected.

Young men and women trained as teachers are home or underemployed in jobs that end up using less of their skills to perform after the government has trained them with the nation’s scarce resources.

It would be prudent on the part of the GES, the MoE, and the government to take proactive steps to ensure that teachers are recruited and posted soon.

However, it seems that the GES may not recruit new teachers until after the end of the third term of the 2023–2024 academic year in July or August 2024, since teachers are rarely recruited in the third term of the academic year.

We will keep teachers updated with new developments on the delayed opening of the recruitment portal, which is used for posting teachers to public schools across the country.

Read: NTC licensure exam re-sit date, registration, and timetable out

For those seeking to take advantage of the posting of teachers by the GES, this is the time to ensure that you put together all the usual documents required for the recruitment. Save these documents on your drives or in your emails, and look out for the opening of the teacher recruitment portal.

If you have any comments or issues related to this GES Teachers recruitment portal, leave it as a comment.

Source: Ghanaeducationnews.org