A coalition of Unposted Trained and Registered Teachers (CUTART) has filed a new appeal with the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service, requesting that delayed postings be addressed.
The group claimed they were beneficiaries of the untrained Teachers Diploma in Basic Education-UTDBE program, which was overseen by the National Teaching Council and the University of Cape Coast, in a three-page open petition to the Ministry, copied to the sector minister Yaw Osei Adutwum and the Director-General of GES. However, several years after successfully completing the program, they have yet to be uploaded.
The Ghana Education Service implemented a four-year distance education program known as the Untrained Teachers Diploma in Basic Education (UTDBE) in 2005 to train pupil teachers across the country in batches as a measure to replace untrained teachers with Professional teachers to help improve education quality at the primary school level.
This was due to the fact that 40% of primary school teachers and 24% of junior high school teachers in Ghana were untrained at the midpoint of the millennium agenda (2000-2015).
The program ran from 2012 to 2016, with the government funding the course in collaboration with JICA to help backlogged teachers obtain a certificate in basic education and serve in the country’s rural areas.
However, despite years of completion, just 110 have been posted leaving over 800 Unposted Trained and Registered Teachers to their faith since in 2018.
“The aforementioned instructors thus issued with Professional Teachers Registered numbers since 2016 only received 110 of their whole membership recruited in 2018, while over 800 members are still home,” according to the Coalition’s President, Afelete Avulah. The UTDBE program, which was partially funded by the government and supported by Jica, featured two types of trained instructors. Those who were student teachers before enrolling in the program, as well as those who were volunteer teachers and Youth Employed”
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“it has really been difficult for members to survive. Passed their licensure exams with National Teaching Council, Teachers Registered numbers, and completed National Service. Among other details mentioned in the petition to the Minister and GES, it is the cry of these Teachers to be posted. We are willing to serve in any part of the country where their services are needed most,” The President said.