Graduate Teachers to NPP: Release Our Appointment Letters Now or Lose Our Votes on Dec 7th!

GES Appointment Letter Delay Sparks Outrage Among Graduate Teachers: Will Silence Cost NPP the 2024 Election?

The Ghana Education Service has left applicants in suspense since receiving applications from graduate teachers in September 2024. The teachers who have met all recruitment requirements have been kept on a knife edge with the absolute silence of the GES regarding the release of their appointment letters.

Release Graduate Teachers Appointment Letters Now or Lose Dec 7th Elections

A cross section of graduate teachers who are totally disappointed in the GES and its failure to release their appointment letter has threatened to vote the NPP government out on December 7th if their appointments are not released before 30th November, 2024.

According to some of the applicants who spoke with the Ghanaeducation.org team about the delay and frustration they have faced since they applied, if the government releases their appointment letters in December 2024 as a way to bait them to vote for the NPP, they, the graduate teachers, will be more angry with the practice of the government.

According to them, teachers are tired of being trapped by the NPP government, which always shifts important teacher retirements to schools close to elections to gain political points.

We are tired of waiting endlessly for our appointment letters, which prevents us from helping students in schools that urgently require our services. We are also broke and need jobs to fix ourselves and our families.” One of the graduate teachers who was hopeful of being appointed indicated this in a chat with the Ghana Education News team.

Other graduate teachers looking forward to the release of their appointment letters also added their voices. According to them, if the government and the GES do not release their appointment letters before the end of November or release them in early December, they will still go ahead to punish the NPP government for all the stress they have caused them since they completed school and applied for teaching appointments.

The teachers had high expectations that the Ghana Education Service would post them and release their appointment letters before the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, but this has not happened. With schools already in session, their hopes of ever getting employed by the Ghana Education Service in 2024 are fading so fast. This has affected their economic situations while affecting teaching and learning in schools where their services would have been useful to learners.

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The GES and MoE have been tight-lipped on when exactly they will release the graduate teachers appointment letters.

Will this message Release Our Appointment Letters Now or Lose Our Votes on Dec 7th From Graduate Teachers to NPP? Compell the Goverment to Act Swiftly?