GES to recruit university graduates and diploma holders-GES Director General

Dr. Erick Nkansah, the Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has pledged that his organisation will recruit university graduates and diploma holders in 2024, provided they receive financial clearance for recruitment.

According to him, the failure of the GES to recruit the above-mentioned personnel was due to the lack of financial clearance from the Finance Ministry.

He further stated that once the outfit receives the necessary clearance, the GES will announce the recruitment of these trained educators to fill the various vacancies. He also promised to expedite their recruitment process.

“We are pressing for financial clearance for university degree holders and diplomats. When we get there, we will follow the same process.”

In a related development, he disclosed that the GES had reasons for shutting down its newly introduced self-posting system for teachers. One of the reasons for the introduction was to ensure that teachers chose the regions and schools they wanted to be posted to so that they would not complain that they had been posted to places they did not prefer.

In his explanation as to why the system was made inaccessible to teachers, he disclosed that the GES was updating the system, hence the nonfunctioning nature currently.

The system is currently unavailable for an update that will enable applicants to self-repost within the system. Hence, the technical shutdown. We will communicate appropriately when the system is up.”

With just four months until the 2024 general elections, reactions to the GES’s information about this year’s recruitment of university graduates and diploma holders have been mixed.

Teachers are advised to put all their required documents for recruitment in order and look forward to the announcement by the Ghana Education Service.