Ghana’s non-redeployed teachers blamed for poor performance

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Difficulties in redeployment of teachers has been identified as one of the major causes of fallen standards of education in the Upper East Region.

The Region obtained 26.7 per cent in 2013 in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

This came out at the 2013 Upper East Regional Cross?sectoral Annual Review meeting organized by the Regional Coordinating Council and supported by UNICEF.

The theme was ?Strengthening Decentralized Monitoring and Partnership for Evidenced Based Planning and Budgeting to deliver results for Children with Equity.?

It was to afford them a common platform to tell their stories about what their districts had achieved in the implementation of programmes and policies on their 2013 annual planning.

Regional Education Statistician at the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Sumaila Shaiibu Gandao, said the over concentration of teachers in some particular areas to the neglect of others in the Region was among the major factors affecting the standards of education.

Lack of conflict resolutions mechanisms in many of the schools was also identified as one of the factors.

According to Mr Gandao there were many instances where deadlocks between heads of schools and teachers were not resolved which invariably affected standards of education.

He said lack of monitoring and supervision also accounted for the poor performance of students in the area and called for a radical approach to redeploy teachers in concentrated areas to deprived ones.

He said there was the need to establish conflict resolution mechanism in schools and strengthen the supervision and monitoring units of the GES to help address the problem.

Participants at the forum also mentioned mass promotion of pupils to next class without considering their performance as a factor accounting for the problem and called for promotion to be based on merit.

Dr Ephraim Nsoh Avea, Upper East Regional Minister, appealed to the GES and other stakeholders to help address the menace and said ?education is the bedrock of development and all hands must be on deck to help resolve the issue once and for all.? GNA

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