GES boss urges teachers to show positive attitude

Accra, Feb 15, GNA - Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, the Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has appealed to teachers and workers in the education sector to adopt attitudes that would improve education.

"There is the need for all categories of workers in the GES to rededicate themselves to the task of carving a new image for the service in order to regain the confidence that people had for them in the past." Addressing workers of the GES, he said the task ahead would not be easy because it would demand commitment, judicious use of resources by all workers and stakeholders in the education sector. Mr Bannerman-Mensah said this year, 20 district directors would be going on retirement when their rich experience would be most needed to help to implement the new education reform programme. "The service has been grappling with some difficulties such as low remuneration, inadequate classrooms, shortage of teaching and learning materials and lack of information flow within the structures of the service."

He said his administration would apply appropriate sanctions against those who will refuse to comply with the ethics of the profession "The GES will not tolerate any form of indiscipline on the part of teachers or office workers such as habitual lateness, absenteeism, drunkenness or laziness at work." 15 Feb 07