Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed that Akufo-Addo’s government has employed 90,000 teachers since it assumed power in 2017.
The recruitment of teachers, the vice president said, is part of the government’s investment in the education sector to improve the quality of education offered to students in the country.
According to Dr. Bawumia, the difficulties that teacher trainees faced in gaining employment after graduating have been resolved under the NPP’s government. He indicated that government will continue to engage the services trainee teachers who graduated as teachers are crucial in improving the quality of education offered in schools of the state.
“We are happy to continue the investment in education. We have recruited 90,000 teachers since we came into office and we continue to recruit so the instances of teachers not being (employed are over) because without teachers how do you get education improved?” he stated.
In 2018, the Minister for Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh indicated at President Akufo-Addo’s meeting with members of Ghanaian Community in Paris, France that the Nana Addo-led government had recruited 59,000 teachers since it took over power in 2017.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has recently also requested for applications from the 2019 graduates of Colleges of Education to be considered for its recruitments into the service.
The Vice President who speaking at the commissioning of an ICT Centre in Ablekuma Central Constituency of the Greater Accra Region said the Akufo-Addo’s administration has made education its priority in order to equipped the human resources of the country to bring about the needed development.
Although Ghana is endowed with rich natural resources, Dr. Bawumia argued that the development of countries across the world is dependent on human resources of the countries and not natural hence it is critical to improve the quality of human resources for the total transformation of the country.
The Vice President admitted that the investment in the education sector takes a huge chunk of government’s revenues but insisted that it is worth spending such revenues in training the country’s human resources since the country cannot afford the cost of untrained human resources.
“It is not natural resources that determine development otherwise Africa probably would been the most developed but it is human resources. So education is what have been emphasizing and that is what the president has made a major focus of his administration. We have been focusing on education for good reasons as I said, it is key to development and that is why we are putting in the resources that would allow our children to get education. The education sector as whole is absorbing a huge chunk of our budget but it is worth spending that money because the alternative will be mass illiteracy and that will be more costly to the economy,” he justified.
