The Director-General of The Ghana Education Service, Prof. Akwasi Opoku Amankwaa, has reacted to the supposed Professional Teachers uniform trending on social media.
In his reaction, he said the GES was not a mushroom agency and as the largest agency of the Ghana government, any attempt by the service to introduce a uniform for its staff will not be done through social media.
He added that the current labour union dispensation would not permit the GES to introduce a uniform without any form of engagement between teacher unions and GES.
He also said if the GES considers the introduction of uniforms for its staff, it will follow due process by announcing it and launching it officially.
In our earlier publication on the GES Professional Teachers Uniform, it was indicated that the information available to Ghanaeducation.org suggested that the uniform currently trending was an initiative of teachers of Akwasiase Methodist Basic School in the Ahofo Ano North Municipal. Further, updates on this show that the uniforms were made by four female teachers of the Akwasiase Methodist Basic School in 2021, and it only surfaced this year on social media.
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DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF GES, PROF. AKWASI OPOKU AMANKWAA WRITES ON SUPPOSED GES PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS’ UNIFORM
I’ve seen these pictures of some purported GES teachers in a prescribed uniform for work circulating.
GES is not a mushroom agency. It’s the largest Gov’t agency in Ghana. We employ more than half of all Gov’t employees. If we want to introduce uniforms for teachers we won’t do that through social media and over the weekend. I guess it’s some group of teachers who’ve decided to have a uniform. Or it could even be photoshop. We may have to look for those in the pictures to first find out if indeed they’re teachers and if they’re what’s their motivation for the uniform.
In this era of unionized labour, GES cannot introduce a uniform for teachers without engaging the teacher unions.
Issues relating to who pays, govt or individuals, the fabric, etc. would all have to be discussed.
Any national project of this kind may have to be announced and possibly launched OFFICIALLY.
Thank you!.
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