56,000 Teachers To Be Employed By End Of October

Ghana’s Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has revealed that the government will employ 56,000 teachers by the end of october. In his speech to students of Nkawkaw Senior High School in the Kwahu West Municipality of the Eastern Region he made this known with the statement:

“By the close of the month, 56,000 teachers would have been employed by the government. Last year at the advent of the double track, we employed 8,700 teachers to support teaching staff. We are also about employing over 1,500 school support staff to support the kitchen staff who seems to have been overly burdened by the double track,”

He was part of President Akufo-Addo’s entourage on the three-day tour of the eastern region.

He reiterated that the government is keen on resolving all problems associated with the Free SHS to make it  better. He made this known with the statement:

“Your Excellency, you said at the beginning of your government that if there was any sector that Ghana should put its investment in, it is the future of the country, and that future is represented by the beneficiaries of the Free SHS,” he added.

He stated that under the Free SHS policy, students also get free uniforms, food among other improvements.

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